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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (69557)	11/10/2000 10:30:32 PM
From: mike60613	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

On Thursday, Bush campaign Chairman Donald Evans told a news conference that in making such charges Democrats neglect ''to point out that in 1996, a year with much lower turnout, a similar number of 14,872 ballots were invalidated for double counting in Palm Beach County.'' Roberts, a Democrat, took issue with Evans' figures saying he was effectively counting apples and oranges in one example, but only apples in the other. Roberts said the 14,872 invalid ballots in 1996 included those that were overvoted along with those that failed to cast any vote for president. If the same two groups were lumped together this year the number swells from 19,120 to 29,702.

To: greenspirit who wrote (69557)	11/10/2000 10:36:31 PM
From: jhild	Respond to of 769667

I'm afraid that guy is a little off in his information. The 19,000 votes disqualified are not on ballots that were re-voted. Such ballots are destroyed as they are exchanged and set aside. I have seen that report before but I think it is not informed as to the way the election was conducted. As I read things the double voting was in ballots that otherwise were tabulated as to other races but had these errors in the Presidential balloting. I believe that there were other numbers of double marking disqualifications in other races on that ballot, but not nearly so many as in the Presidential race. There is apparently another large number of ballots that were counted as "no vote" for President. I think I read that number was 11,000 such ballots. I think this is the focus of the manual recounting for if it turns out that the voter "marked" and did not punch a hole out in the ballot, those votes will be allowed if their intent was clear. Apparently they have been allowed in the past.

To: greenspirit who wrote (69557)	11/10/2000 10:39:03 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Liberal Media Blast Greedy Gore Politics/Elections Breaking News News Source: Newsmax.com Published: 11/10/00 Author: Carl Limbacher Posted on 11/10/2000 16:40:20 PST by truthandlife Even the liberal New York Times and Washington Post are criticizing Al Gore - the presidential candidate both endorsed - for his campaign's "rush to litigation" over the vote count in Florida. The Times was "worrying" that Gore and his legal team "would announce their support for a lawsuit while the mandatory recount is still going on, and while seven days remain for the arrival of overseas absentee ballots." The Times said also, "It is doubly worrying that some Gore associates are using the language of constitutional crisis and talking of efforts to block or cloud the vote of the Electoral College on Dec. 18 and of dragging out the legal battle into January." Presidential candidates "have an extra measure of responsibility to assure that their actions serve the broad national interest," and the Democrat candidate and Republican George W. Bush both "need to be asking themselves whether a scorched-earth legal strategy meets that standard." "Fortunately," the Times said, "given the Gore campaign's rush to litigation, there is a time window for both political and legal combat." The Post said Gore campaign manager William Daley "took the reckless further step of suggesting in so many words that the election will be illegitimate" if Bush is declared the winner. The legal action Daley spoke of "should be approached with enormous caution and restraint," the Post said. "One of these candidates - the one behind in the final Florida count - is going to have to make a political determination," the Post said. "You have to hope that whoever that turns out to be has in mind the country's interests ahead of his own." Are you listening, Al?