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To: Umunhum who wrote (128163)	11/11/2000 4:04:12 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1570334

Gore will find the votes to win the state by hand counting. The problem with just hand counting counties that are Democratic strongholds will mean any errors found will statistically favor Gore. Just as hand counting counties that are Republican strongholds will yield more votes for Bush than Gore. That is the problem with what is now happening. Where and when will this end? In the recount according to FOX news, Gore was undercounted in 33 counties, Bush in 22 and there were twelve counties where either there was no miscount of ballots, or both candidates ballots were miscounted by the same number. The spread between miscounted Gore counties vs miscounted Bush counties was 11. I was expecting the spread between counties miscounting Gore vs those miscounting Bush to be much greater given the greater number of votes captured by Gore in the recount. The reason for the low spread is simply that where a county miscounted in favor of Gore, the spread between miscounted votes for both candidates usually was 5, or less votes. However when the miscount was in favor of Bush, the spread or the difference in undercounted votes often was much, much greater than 5. For an extreme example, in Palm Beach County, a supposedly Democratic stronghold, Gore was undercounted by 751 votes whereas Bush was undercounted by only 108 for a spread of 643 votes. One conclusion that can be reached from these tallies is that it appears Florida Democrats are considerably less dishonest than Florida Republicans. <g> Aside from the relative dishonesty of workers from both parties, what's even more disappointing for all of us is that there were less then ten counties where the recount did not yield miscounted ballots. In other words, less than 15% of FL's counties were able to count their votes accurately and honestly.....really pitiful! In conclusion to answer your question, "Where will it end?".....when the dishonesty and incompetency has been squeezed out of the vote count...hopefully by next Friday. ted Disclaimer: Tallies were not double checked for accuracy; an accredited accounting firm was not used to prepare the tallies; a US marshal was not present when the tallies were prepare; and the preparer willfully admits that he voted for Gore!!!!