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To: Snowshoe who wrote (72231)	11/13/2000 2:02:25 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Robert Dole threatens to boycott Gore inauguration McCain and Nunn show statesmanship Not everyone who spoke out Sunday was fanning the flames. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said on CBS, "The American people are very patient, and I don't think that there is any kind of crisis right now. But they are growing weary of it." Former senator Sam Nunn, a respected conservative Democrat, issued a statement urging both sides to avoid taking the election to court, and calling for an end to partisan rhetoric. "The two men who would lead America must now act in a manner worthy of the office they seek," Nunn said. But the Republican nominee for president in 1996, former Kansas senator Robert J. Dole, talked on ABC's "This Week" of a possible boycott of the inauguration should Gore prevail in this dispute. And he pointed out that Republicans control the Florida state legislature in case of "a scenario where the state legislature would appoint the electors" if the vote cannot be certified there. washingtonpost.com

To: Snowshoe who wrote (72231)	11/13/2000 2:35:09 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Ah, anyone hearing the Republicans whine today would think that asking for a manual recount in a very tight vote was a diabolical trick that the Democrats had just invented. I have news for you, it's not new, and it's legal in Florida and many other places, including Texas. Particularly when recounting the old-style punch cards, human readers will always be able to read some cards that the machine could not read, because the voter did not cleanly punch the card, or marked it with a pen, etc. No votes need to be invented or discerned by "mind-readers". These are Democratic districts, so most of the found votes will really be Democratic. The Republicans could have asked for recounts in Republican districts, though I understand that most of the Republican districts have newer voting machines, so they are unlikely to have as many unreadable ballots.