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To: FaultLine who wrote (7998)	11/10/2000 2:56:26 AM
From: EnricoPalazzo	Respond to of 22706

I will say that it seems practically impossible to re-vote. The Republicans would go nuts because, after all, practically every Nader voter would switch to Gore under these circumstances and even I think this would hardly be fair. This is one of the few republican arguments I've heard that doesn't rely on misinformation (I have no doubt that the dems would be equally devious in the same position--it just happens that the facts are on the dems side this time). It is not, IMO, a particularly winning one. An excerpt from an email I recently wrote: "The naderites pose a problem. The republicans certainly have a legitimate gripe that their likely change in votes would skew things (although I strongly believe that Nader would campaign in palm beach, if there were a revote. I also believe he would be torn limb from limb by old, blue-haired jewesses). "I don't think that this is a winning argument, though. While our system doesn't have the latency of India, we do not mandate that all polls close at the same time. As a result, people in California, Hawaii, or even Missouri, know how the race is going before they vote. Clearly, not on this level, but the principle is the same. Game theory would imply that people choose their votes in part based on the behavior of other voters. They infer the behavior of other voters based on, amongst other things, exit polls, pre-election polls, or 'leaked' polls, as seen on the drudge report. For instance, many former Nader supporters chose to vote Gore because they knew the election would be close. There's nothing unconstitutional or (in my mind), improper about this. Here we'd only be adding one more source of information to affect their vote."