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From: scott_jiminez	5/4/2001 8:10:22 AM
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Surprise, surprise (OT) Front page story in today's New York Times: ----------------------- Florida Leaders Sign Agreement for Overhaul of Voting System. Hand recounts to be used in tight races. Snippets: -Six months after a chaotic election in Florida decided the protracted presidential race, state lawmakers have reached agreement on a bill that would do away with hanging chads, butterfly ballots and questions about determining voter intent. It would also require that ballots in extremely close elections be recounted by hand — the very practice that Florida election officials and the Bush campaign had opposed so fiercely last year in their battle with Democrats who were insisting that manual recounts would tip the election to Al Gore. - Terry McAuliffe [chairman of the Democratic National Committee] said, "All the things we were attacked on before, like manual recounts, all of a sudden they're [the republican dominated Florida legislature] the biggest supporters. If we had had manual recounts a year ago, Al Gore would be in the White House." nytimes.com ----------------------- Perhaps once all of Alaska looks like the detritus of a drilling platform, and national forests look like Levittown (also in today's NYT: 'Bush Will Modify Ban on New Roads in Federal Lands' nytimes.com we'll see the same backwards logic from the republicans once again.

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