To: RocketMan who wrote (15092 ) 11/12/2000 6:39:49 PM From: im a survivor Respond to of 65232 <<He lost the first count. He lost the automatic recount. He lost the manual recount on the 1% of the Palm Beach votes. He will probably lose with the absentees. Suppose that, with the full Palm Beach manual recount, he wins? We will have a President who takes office after several losses, because of a manual recount of ballots in one county, in one state, of the nation. And whose "win" would have been based on the opinion of a handful of officials about the intent of voters who did not follow the pre-set rules on how to fill out a proper ballot. And in spite of thousands of similar ballots in other counties, in Florida and in other states, in which similar errors may have been made, but that were not similarly recounted. >> Would the florida secreatary of state allow that to happen. Would be intense pressure to allow the election to hand on several gore counties.....bottom line is if they recount one county, they need to recount them all.....what makes Gore or anybody else think margin of error is any different in PB then other places. It would be a travesty if this happened. Whoever allows this to happen would be under intense scrutiny. Screw the laws....we need to do whats fair. Either follow past precedence, or come up with something new. I just dont see how we as a country could allow a president to take office under these conditions....do what we did in the past....recount, count the absentee's and declare a winner, or start anew...well, not anew, but if they count one county in one state, they need to recount all the counties in that state. I dont see any other fair way to do it. Keith