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

To: jlallen who wrote (70716)	11/11/2000 9:06:30 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Machines are impartial, humans are not. You are wrong. The technology used to produce and tabulate votes in most of Florida produces routinely errors of the order of 1%. That's 60,000 votes out of the 6 million cast for the presidency. Human recounts are very careful and deliberate affairs that include an equal number of counters and observers from both parties and look ONLY at ballots rejected by the machine as invalid. These recounts produce quite accurate results and actually reduce the 1% machine error to a few hundredths of 1%. If you genuinely want the will of the people to prevail, you must love hand recounts in very very close elections. And this elections is certainly very very very close. BTW the state of Texas has hand recounts too. Kyros

To: jlallen who wrote (70716)	11/11/2000 9:40:46 PM
From: jhild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

If machines were so perfect and cognitive of the vote expressed on a ballot then any "by hand" inspection would turn up no discrepancies. As I heard it tonight, the Canvassing Commission can call a stop to the hand checking if they find insignificant differences. With 49 additional votes registered by the hand count - 30 Gore - 19 Bush and less than 1/2 precinct checked, this may be sufficient to continue this bi-partisan recount. If Bush is harmed by this, then I am compelled to ask him just what his priorities are. Winning at any cost?