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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Dan3 who wrote (128930)11/22/2000 12:37:34 AM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (3) of 1570531
 
Dan,

What I think is an issue is the selective nature of the recount, which is the result of Bush's strategy - he should have called for hand counts in districts that favored him, and it still isn't too late.

I think you are missing the point. On one hand, you have the votes (extremely small percentage) that get rejected by machines, but are still reasonably clear to the human counter. These will add to both candidates roughly in the proportion of the vote within the county. On a statewide recount, not much would change about the outcome, and even doing it in only Democratic counties may not change the outcome.

But you are left with disputed ballots. The Democrats have no qualms about stealing the election by judging these unfairly. Bush is just never going to operate on this level, expecting the Republican canvassing board members to steal the election for him. If my read of the man is correct, he will rather lose than do that.

There is still a chance that Florida House of Representatives or US House of Representatives will do something about the travesty of justice that is unfolding right now. But don't expect Bush to fight one injustice with another.

Joe
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