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To: Dave Gore who wrote (73961)	11/14/2000 11:33:08 AM
From: SecularBull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

But, Dave, when the ballots have been handled three times, don't you agree that some of the ballots (if not a great many) may be damaged? Also, the machine count standard is OK throughout the rest of the country, where it is used. The national results aside, why should these votes deserve a higher standard? In order to be objective, you have to take the national results issue out of the equation. I want the decision that is reached here to set precedent for how we deal with this in the future, and a precedent that we can live with. I see selective recounts as subjective and as a bad precedent that will always be bitched about by the other side. LoF

To: Dave Gore who wrote (73961)	11/14/2000 11:36:14 AM
From: alan w	Respond to of 769670

So, in your opinion Dave the entire state of Florida needs to be recounted. Correct? alan w

To: Dave Gore who wrote (73961)	11/14/2000 11:37:27 AM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 769670

MIami-Dade has just voted to have the manual recount. The undervote is said to be about 190 for Gore. What disturbs me, and SHOULD disturb you in your insistence on fairness, is that the three counties they are recounting, despite no evidence of fraud or machine error, is 85% Gore. Obviously the percentages favor Gore over Bush in the number of votes that will be found with hanging brads, etc. This is not about accurate vote count; this about winning at all costs, by either party. Cloaking it in the rhetoric of "people's will" and "fairness" and "disenfranchisement" is at this point an insult to our intelligence.