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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (85165)	11/12/2000 12:54:25 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 132070

One final point. Florida was reported as a Gore victory by CNN etc... prior to the polls being closed in western Florida. That is the most conservative section of the state. There are widespread reports of Bush voters that went home instead of waiting in line and others that never left the house. I was surprised to hear that, since I thought the networks had a policy of not calling a state before its polls closed. Then I read that they called Florida 8 minutes before the polls closed. I don't know how widespread the effect of that 8 minutes was. Obviously, they should have waited. But in general, there is no reason to believe that a manual count - even if it were done over all the districts - would be any more accurate than 2 automated ones that are showing Bush winning so far. There's reason to believe that it would be both more complete -- humans being able to read ballots that the machines could not -- and more error prone. CNN reports that the process is very open and being scrutinized intently, so I don't think it's very prone to intentional bias. I find it particularly funny that the Bush camp is now saying that although the Texas legislature passed, and Governor Bush signed, legislation preferring manual to machine recounts in contested elections, Texas punched ballots are completely, totally different from Florida punched ballots and the two processes have nothing at all in common. Yeah, right. Do you seriously believe that the Bush camp wouldn't be recounting right, left & center if Gore held a 300 vote lead?