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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Master (Hijacked) who wrote (73644)	11/14/2000 10:35:37 AM
From: Dave Gore	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Master, at least you TRIED to refute my answers, but look at how wrong you and some of your Republican friends are! 1) "BUSH signed into Texas law that stated that manual recounts were more accurate." YOUR ANSWER: A manual recount may be more accurate but not when it involves the counting of computer punch cards in which you must interpret a dangling chad. MY ANSWER: You know the machine has a 3-5% error rate and cannot accurately count either hanging chads or bent cards. Are you saying that all states and EVEN GEORGE BUSH who passed laws claiming that manual recounts are WRONG? Are you saying that the human eye cannot see that a chad is hanging and obscurring a clean hole? C'mon....get real...LOL! ............... 2) "some citizens (according to the NY Times) in Palm County who accidentally double voted...." YOUR ANSWER: Some voters punched Gore and Buchanan. What leads you to believe that those weren't voters disenchanted with the Clinton administration and simply decided to spoil their ballots as a form of protest. MY ANSWER: This is a simple one. Because there have been numerous news reports both on TV and in the NY Times article. ....................... 3) Average citizens in Florida are suing...Gore has nothing to do with it. YOUR ANSWER:Yeah, right! I suggest you learn the definition of the word naive. MY ANSWER: Even if you are right, isn't that beside the point? Don't people have the right to be presented with a LEGAL ballot with the hole to the right of the name as required by FLorida law? Furthermore if they asked for a new ballot, should they not have been given one? Was it right for the officials at the polling location to refuse to answer questions to clear up the confusion about the ballot? ......................... 4) " say, manually count the whole state if you have to. Do it now! That's in fact what Warrent Christopher said without hesitation. " YOUR ANSWER: Is that what Christopher said? What news sources have you been following? MY ANSWER: Numerous news stories, during a Press Conference and Sunday on Meet the Press. He actually said when asked if he would mind if the Bush campaign demanded a manual count in other states, he said that he thinks "they should and that they may even have an obligation to do so!" ........................... 5) "...the ballot was illegal ..." YOUR ANSWER: Was this not the same ballot used in 1996? And why did nearly 6 million other Floridians get it right? MY ANSWER: It was clearly agreed among more than a 30 voter panel from Palm County (which I viewed live on MSNBC) that this ballot was NEVER used before and furthermore it was not even the same as the one that was published ahead of time. Even the hard line republicans on the panel agreed with that ....................... 6)For one thing, the country needs to be able to accept that the person that ends up in the White House WAS the real winner. YOUR ANSWER: Can't you all see that?" What will it take to make YOU see that? MY ANSWER: Of course, and unless you can refute my arguments and the arguments by GEORGE BUSH HIMSELF and other state that manual counts are more accurate, then you are wrong again. If you are for the most accurate count possible, you are for a statewide recount.