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To: tejek who wrote (128257)	11/12/2000 1:58:24 PM
From: david_langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570420

Ted, "Hmmm! I see Al Gore." My statement about the relative correctness of the first vs. second counts was just a suggestion. Since then, I've learned too much more about chipping chad off ballots by repeated machine passes. So it seems that the recount could be more accurate if it is believed that the machines impartially corrected poorly punched ballots and there was no "biased help" by the canvassers. Now in the hand recount, the canvassers are going to divine the intent of the elector by studying hanging chad. That term "divine" conjures images of Johnny Carson doing a Karnak the Magnificent sketch. I have a mental image of courthouse rooms in four heavily Democratic counties filled with canvassers wearing white swami turbans. Each holding a punched ballot to his head with his eyes closed, muttering, "Yes, I see Al Gore here". <ggg> I sincerely hope you are not too young to know about the Karnak skits. <ggg> It is true that the canvassers in these counties are mostly Democrats, by as much as 2 to 1. I'm sure that they will be impartial swamis. If state officials don't allow a statewide manual count, let me do my best Karnak-impression here to close. "Hmmmm. I see the Palm Beach vote swinging the election decisively to Al Gore. Jesse Jackson will become a staunch advocate of the finality of the voting process. The lawsuits against the butterfly ballot will vanish." Dave