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To: abstract who wrote (13196)	11/9/2000 10:22:53 AM
From: SE	Respond to of 65232

The thing that really is getting me upset is that we have had claims of voter fraud here in WI. We had the cigarettes for votes scam, we have Marquette students voting two and more times and we had election people handing out multiple ballots to selected voters. With WI being only 6,000 vote spread, I propose we throw out all of Milwaukee county's votes due to the above problems. Now, let's see what nonsense we can find in IA. I am certain there is something there too....only 6,000 votes difference there as well. This is very very bad. No matter who is ultimately named the President, 1/2 of the country will claim bull and nonsense. This is very very bad. Whoever gets it will have a very hard first job of attempting to re-unite. Enough division in this country. I am sick of it. Time to unite and move forward as one without the divisions of black /white, rich/poor, management/labor, ... May the Lord help the winner.

To: abstract who wrote (13196)	11/9/2000 10:49:09 AM
From: Selectric II	Respond to of 65232

Kinda makes one wonder about our claim of right to tell other countries how to do "that democracy thing." Didn't Yugoslavia just go through something like this?

To: abstract who wrote (13196)	11/9/2000 11:08:37 AM
From: Jill	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 65232

19K ballots thrown out is nuts--what did the imbecile workers at the polls do, say, just punch both it's okay? Who would say that? Or 19K people punched both and thought, "It's okay--they'll figure out which one I really want"? It doesn't make any sense. Does it? This is the one fact I find MOST bizarre. Only in one place this happened? The only thing I can imagine is total foul play where people voted properly and somebody double punched 19K ballots in order to throw them out. Question was were they Gore or Bush ballots? How do we know they were double punched anyway--did they save the ballots they threw out? Am I missing something? I can see it might go the way you're suggesting, but I think that one or the other will concede tonight, with a strong enough speech that all we'll be left with are a few scattered lawsuits in Florida which the media will hype for a bit and then become disinterested in.

To: abstract who wrote (13196)	11/9/2000 11:45:25 AM
From: jmac	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Here we go. Things to get tense over next 3 hours. Gore will retake Florida in re-count. Military vote wil come in and give it back to Buch by about 500 votes. The judge in the civil action in Palm Beach will hold an emergency meeting within 3 hours to decide the fate of the Palm Beach mess. It will be Plam Beach County's decision that decides the vote in Fla. If judge decides for a re-vote, Bush is surely likely to press for an overall re-vote in the entire state of Florida. Jesse jackson leads massive rally in Palm Beach. In the meantime, Bush forces challenge Missouri results due to 45 minutes of extra voting in Dem areas. Although Bush won Mo., the challenge is being made because they lost the Ashcroft senate seat to a dead person. Do your risk a re-vote in Mo to gain a seat in the senate and possible lose the electoral college votes? This is gong to turn out to be a very big problem for America. 50% of Americans will feel that they got robbed. The Senate is 50:50. What a huge mess and not to be resolved before Dec. 18th when the electoral college is supposed to meet.