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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dr. Voodoo who wrote (282)	11/13/2000 6:15:08 PM
From: G_Barr	Respond to of 3887

If the margin of error determined by hand recount was large in some Fl counties, does it not suggest some states may have margins of error that could change the outcome of their elections too? Does this not open the door for a constitutional argument that other states should be subject to recount based upon some systematic errors, whether they be in punch cards, optical scanners etc? Well it certainly raises serious questions as to the accuracy of some of these machine counts but other states, other than NM are simply not that close. What would really open the door to chaos would be if Bush was able to get some judge to invent a constitutional right that ballots counted under different methods was unconstitutional as all Florida's vote would be unconstitutional as the punch hole ballots have a much larger error than the optical scan ballots. Likewise, the votes in most state which are using many differnet machine methods would be unconstitutional. Judge Middlebrooks did not miss this point in his order today. It would seem to me that punch hole ballots with a 3 to 5% error rate represents a very high number of people losing their franchise rights (some 12,000 to 20,000 in Palm Beach itself) due to machine error and it is difficult to argue that examining these ballots under the supervision of both parties is not the right thing to do. Of course, people who want Bush to win don't seem to care about anything but Bush winning (not that Gore supporters would be any different in a reverse situation). This is what politics has become.