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To: amadeus who wrote (65318)11/9/2000 4:16:45 AM
From: Carl R.  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667
 
Not true. Even if there was no effect, you can't put the election back in the bottle and just re-run it in one county. What do you think the voter turn out would be? To avoid making every vote worth thousands of times more than normal they'd have to re-do the election in the whole state. Or maybe the whole country. And that's the problem. From my perspective a democrat created the ballot and supervised the election process. Furthermore Gore's people saw the ballot in advance and approved it, so they have no grounds to complain at this late date. The Doctrine of Laches applies. It is unfortunate if any voter was confused and voted for the wrong person, but there isn't anything that can be done. As for the people who voted for multiple people, everyone knows you can't do that, so I have no sympathy for them.

Carl



To: amadeus who wrote (65318)11/9/2000 9:24:21 AM
From: Zakrosian  Respond to of 769667
 
if there was no effect as republicans assert,
then there would be no difference in the outcome of a re-vote.
right?

You don't think any original Nader voters would switch to Gore in a revote? How about if in any revote, the difference between Nader's original count and the second one (if it's lower) is deducted from Gore's total?


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