To: Sea Otter who wrote (71943 ) 11/12/2000 9:50:51 PM From: greenspirit Respond to of 769667 The liberal media spin regarding Bush supporting hand recounts in Texas only applies to votes taken by hand methods.sos.state.tx.us Just another Democratic spin, and another example of big media grabbing the bait and running with it. Same thing is true regarding the Florida ballot needing the mark to the right of the name. Florida law which states the ballot mark must be to the right of the name, only applies to old fashioned hand ballots. The law is different for automated systems, and states something to the effect "as long as it is reasonable". However, we now know this entire "I'm too stupid to mark the butterfly ballot" was nothing more than a hoax, designed to deflect attention away from the 17,000 fraudulent ballots being manipulated in Palm Beach County. The truth will come out now that we have the internet. It's only a matter of time. Anyone who believes Only 38% of registered Republicans voted in Palm Beach County, while 82% of registered Democrats voted is a fool. Standard Clintonized Democratic tactic is to leak the most damaging information yourself, first, so you get first crack at its spin. Spinning the story first that discarded ballots were much higher where Gore support was strongest, is predictable. If you change the vote totals, and the way you change them leaves a trace in increased discards, obviously the discards will be far higher there. So you need to cover your tracks. What better way to create a cloud of confusion, then the "butterfly ballot hoax"? The data is there for any media outlet to look at. To suggest well over 82% of the registered Democrats went to vote is Palm Beach county, while only 38% of Republicans showed up is nonsense. We're looking at massive fraud here everyone. And it's getting clearer every minute. With less than 2% of the vote left to go in Florida. 30K votes changed hands from Bush to Gore. It all fits now, how the vote changed so dramatically in the last remaining moments. How the butterfly ballots become such a big issue, and why we are so focused on hand counting in a county so completely controlled by Democrats. The internet will expose it all folks. It may take a little time, but eventually the rest of the media will come to realize this too. JMHO