Ellen, can only speak for myself, and short answer to your question is : Yes..Satisfied Bush is the certified winner.
Reasoning: We Americans are a wonderfully fortunate group of people. We have nearly instant communications, and KNOW when we should vote. We know the hours of voting, the places, have (or should have) read the voter's pamphlets, understand (or certainly should have) BEFORE we go to do our duty: to VOTE.
Most of us have trusted that our vote did and will count.
The ONLY people in America that might have trouble voting on election day were the Military, working on our behalf all around the world. Don't forget, just before the election, the USS Cole had just suffered a huge loss..17 people died, many more injured, to say nothing of the damage to the ship itself. Our Forces were still on alert during this time...
In my opinion, the Military are the ONLY ones who should be given ANY slack....(and I am hopeful that after the election, we will as citizens be able to understand just all the reasons some of them NEVER did get their requested ballots, the reasons they weren't sent on time, and the reasons they weren't delivered on time.
In every election I've ever voted in (MANY, it seems) the onus was on "me" to do it right the first time. (QUAINT notion I know.....I AM RESPONSIBLE....)
In these cases, the people had up to 3 times to get it right.
The votes were then machine tallied.
Because the vote was close, the votes were then re-tallied.
That should be the end of the story.
Period.
But it hasn't been. If there was any further recounting to be done, IMO, it should have been the ENTIRE State.
If ANY machines were faulty, the Election Board for the County in question should have some serious explaining to do!! It is their JOB to get it right!!!
This is a sincere and sincerely-curious question:
Are Republicans truly pleased and satisfied that Bush is currently the certified winner rather than the fully vote-verified winner |
