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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency?

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To: Herschel Rubin who wrote (2963)	11/29/2000 4:04:16 PM
From: Ellen	Read Replies (3) of 3887

Now Bush is asking for full recounts. Oh the irony! dailynews.yahoo.com Republican George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s lawyers asked a Florida judge Wednesday to order that all 1.16 million ballots cast in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties in the Nov. 7 presidential election be shipped to the state capital for possible recounting, not just the disputed ballots requested by the Democrats. The request came a day after Leon County Circuit Court Judge Sanders Sauls granted a request by Democrat Al Gore (news - web sites)'s attorneys and ordered that nearly 14,000 disputed ballots from the two heavily Democratic counties be shipped under police guard to Tallahassee, where they will be held until a Saturday hearing on a possible recount. Gore's attorneys asked only for a recount of the two counties' ``undervotes,'' the ballots where counting machines could not any vote for president. Some had votes that could be detected by human eyes but they were not included in the certified tally that gave Republican George W. Bush a 537-vote lead out of 6 million cast in Florida, giving him the state's 25 electoral votes needed to claim the White House. Gore has asked that those ballots -- 10,750 from Miami-Dade and 3,308 from Palm Bach County -- be hand counted and included in Florida's total, which could allow him to overtake Bush's lead and claim the presidency. But Bush's attorneys said Wednesday that any review or recount should include all ballots cast in the two counties, nearly 700,000 in Miami-Dade and 462,000 in Palm Beach County. ``Many ballots that were subject to dispute during the manual recounts were not segregated into the limited category of ballots'' sought by the Democrats, Bush's lawyers said. ----- [Disclaimer: I voted for Gore as I preferred him over Bush to be President. I have always maintained that a full manual recount be completed so that the actual winner could be determined regardless of who won. I have previously stated and maintain that both sides could probably not withstand extreme scrutiny.]

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