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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (85134)	11/11/2000 5:34:04 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Skeeter, >I predict that gore steals this election<< I predict that if you are right we will have more Oklahoma bombings. And that is one sad tune..... Wayne

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (85134)	11/11/2000 5:47:47 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Skeets, As I understand it, the hand recount must be done by teams of 2: one Republican and one Democrat. They will almost certainly find more votes because of the "chad effect" -- every time you touch these paper ballots, some of the little paper holes, or chads, that were still attached fall off the ballot. Since these are Democratic districts, most of the found votes will be Democratic. Election officials where I live in Massachusetts are sounding smug because Massachusetts outlawed punched ballots some years ago due to these problems. Does anyone know the names of the leading companies that make modern computerized voting systems? I would like to invest in them now; they about to have a boom. All this is legal but I sure hope they manage to resolve it soon after they finish counting the absentee ballots. Someone on the news just pointed out that Bush signed a law in Texas preferring the results of manual recounts to machine recounts in close elections. There's a certain irony there. Whoever gets in under these circumstances will not really be doing himself or his party any favors. So I'm really hoping that enough absentee ballots come in for Bush to settle the matter. Right now the difference between the candidates is literally noise level -- there is no way to scientifically know who got more votes, it's just a matter of when you stop counting. A best-effort attempt at accuracy would involve recounting 50 times and taking an average.