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To: MasonS who wrote (16111)	11/14/2000 2:44:47 PM
From: Dealer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Thanks Mason....so glad to see ya over here. Refreshing! dealie

To: MasonS who wrote (16111)	11/14/2000 3:39:54 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 65232

Thanks Mason, I am enough of a statistician to understand that a manual recount in select Democratic strongholds will result in an apples to oranges election tabulation IF IT IS ALLOWED TO STAND. From George Will's column......... .........Although Bush and his advisers agonized about what they knew would be a severe public relations problem in going to federal court, one stark calculation trumped all others: They believed, with certitude and correctly, that unless an injunction stopped the manual count, they would lose the presidency. They knew obtaining an injunction was quite unlikely. However, seeking one would at least plant a predicate for an appeal on constitutional grounds after the manual recount. The appeal would allege that the right to vote of all other Florida voters, 6 million of them, had been abridged, without due process and in denial of equal protection of the law, by the supposed solicitude of some Democratic counties for a few thousand voters who botched the marking of their ballots and may have wanted to vote for Gore........... ==================================================================== I do not want to have any votes divined. The time to fix problems is prior to the election, not after. If voters cannot or did not take the time to consider the importance of the event at hand & assure that they selected the appropriate candidate AND assure the ballot was properly punched, checked, etc., then they lost their chance to have their vote count. To allow others to divine a voters intent is a travesty. To selectively divine a voters intent in a manner that will clearly favor one party over another is an unspeakable tragedy. I say give Gore the presidency rather than continue to pry open pandora's box. Justify it all you want. An apples to oranges tabulation does not represent the Will of the People. Ö¿Ö