1. The Miami Herald says their "audit" of undervotes (which is being performed by an independent CPA firm) will be done in a week or two. This audit does not decide who got the votes -- it merely identifies which undervote ballots had (i) 3 corners detached (i.e., hanging chads), (ii) 2 corner detached (i.e., swinging chads), (iii) 1 corner detached, (iv) no corners detached, but perforated so that light shows through, (v) dimples but no perforation (including whether the ballot had more than one dimpled chad, or just the one), or (vi) no indication whatsoever of a vote. We are then each left to draw whatever inferences we want to draw based on that. They are not releasing any data until it's done. And it does not show what happened on the overvotes -- though I believe they will be doing that as well -- or someone will (i.e., whether overvoted ballots show Gore + another candidate, Bush + another candidate, Either + a write in with their name written in, but not counted, etc.) -- which will shed some light on how many people thought they were voting for Gore when they left the booth, but then it turned out that they were DQ'd. There appear to be at least 10-20 Thousand net votes for Gore that were lost through overvotes in Palm Beach and Duval counties. Which is part of the reason why I get irritated when Bush supporters act as if their guy won big, and deserves the right to claim a mandate -- the other main reason is his loss nationally by over 500,000 votes.
2. Which minority voter fraud are you talking about - the GOP vendor who removed thousands of legal voters from the registration rolls, thereby preventing them from voting when they showed up to vote? The turning away of hundreds of Bethune Cookman students who had registered on campus only to find out that they never made it to rolls and were turned away? the 10-15 people who have been shown to have voted twice (at least 4 of whom were republicans rom what I've read)? Or something else? Please be specific.
3. Jesse Jackson's love child?? Apparently, hypocrisy is not restricted to one political party. Beyond that, I think it's amusing, but a huge "so what"? But the indignation of the right, that is hard to take -- especially when it appears Dubya may have availed himself once or twice of the abortion rights he now wants to do away with, and when we know how Newt left his first wife terminally ill in a hospital bed, and then left his second wife in order to shack up with a youthful employee -- well that does make you wonder. Moral indignation is a funny thing - as it so often turn out that those who tell us all how we should act morally inevitably have a few skeletons in their own closets. Glass houses, and all that.
As for TV, I don't have a clue -- I don't watch TV that much either -- what a terrible place to get information.
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