Dave, people all over the country have their ballots thrown out for all kinds of reasons. Including whether their chads were torn out fully or not. Let me ask you. Do you think it's fair that ALL those chads not torn completely out in the rest of Florida should be disenfranchised, and count less than the Democrat counties of Miami, Palm Beach, and other Gore places?
Do you honestly NOT see how the statistics of the state could easily be changed if you ONLY count dimples, hanging, scratches, and pregnant chads in Gore only controlled counties?
If Gore wanted to conduct manual recounts, he should have done it in a responsible way, where a standard was asked for across the state, and every county was recounted.
He could have done this, he could have approached George W Bush, came to a consensus regarding chad standards and asked him to support a full manual recount on day one after the electronic recount. Instead, he threw out his swatt team of lawyers and tried to "clintonize" the process by selecting counties he knew would change the overal makeup of the Florida voters.
Then he dispicably attacked the military overseas absentee voter, while waiting for chad court hearings to take place because he feared they would voter overwhelmingly for Bush. Which they did.
If Gore had done what I recommended on day one of the recount dispute. He would be sitting on the moral high ground today, and the statewide manual process would be completed long ago.
But you see Dave, Gore really didn't want that to happen. He knew the historical statistical processes rarely change when manual recounts take place across a 6 million voter population. One area's Gore votes, would have been offset by one area's Bush votes. That's why manual recounts rarely change the outcome of a statewide election.
Gore wanted to steal the election Dave. He carefully chose a process which he knew would change the intended vote of Florida citizens. And he did it in counties he knew he had strongly partisan canvassing board members who would do whatever they could to find him more votes. |
