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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective

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To: david james who wrote (7276)	11/23/2000 10:10:42 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) of 10042

I see a lot of Bush supporters writing as if they think it should be obvious that Gore is at fault. Well, I would think that would be a pretty good analysis. After all, it is HIS TEAM that is only willing to manually recount specific heavily democratic counties who he complains were "disinfranchised" by these confusing ballots (chosen by a democrat). And the fact that the canvassing boards of these counties are also democratically controlled, provide further evidence of bias and manipulation. Mr. Gore could care less about Duval county though. Those voters weren't part of his original demand for a recount. And demanding that the rules be changed in those 3 counties, but not in every other one, is just the height of hypocrisy, despite the fact that all three counties already carried him as the winner. If he had been a loser in any of those counties, I could see him protesting and demanding a recount. But he's protesting the quantity of votes in those few counties in order to discriminate against the rest of the state of Florida. (take a look at the make-up of the Florida legislature if you doubt which party represents the majority of the state). The facts are that in every election votes are disqualified. Palm Beach has a record of being VERY arbitrary with their standards for manual recounts. They denied a black female republican a manual recount despite the fact that she lost by a mere 11 votes. However, they permit Gore to receive one even though he carried their county. The Florida state legislature has the authority to appoint the state's electors, thereby nullifying all of these recounts, should this process endanger Florida being represented in the college. And given the number of lawsuits flipping back and forth, they may just have to call an emergency session and do so. I don't personally believe Bush would have a problem with manual recounts were there an actual standard being followed, and were they occurring in all counties that show similar "confusion" with invalidated ballots. Duval County had a 9% invalidation rate in this election and normally votes 59% republican (according to reports). Now if the democrats want to "take up the cross" to find the true will of the people, I would suggest they start there. Regards, Ron

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