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To: Satish C. Shah who wrote (86903)	11/16/2000 3:29:55 PM
From: MeDroogies	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

If you'd like, I'll lead you to several other links that can dispute much of what is written in that article. I don't see a good reason to do so, because it would only be put down to partisan bickering. The fact that Nixon backed down while others pursued the case has nothing to do with what I said. Nixon, even according to Theodore White, had no desire to pursue a court challenge PARTICULARLY when Eisenhower withdrew his support. The knowledge existed on both sides that fraud had taken place in many areas...by both GOP and Dems. That the link you sent me to focussed on the GOP doesn't diminish this fact. Nixon had no desire to expose all the fraud that had occurred. In fact, there is question whether Kennedy ACTUALLY outpolled Nixon. In today's NYTimes, there is an op/ed piece that cites Theodore White's history (I'm now reading) of the 1960 election. White lists the votes in his book for Democrat and Republican because there were alot of votes that went not for Kennedy, but for State's Rights Democrats. Somewhere along the way, the names of the candidates replaced the names of the parties. Technically speaking, any election that has a differential of less than 1% is a statistical dead heat. For a variety of reasons, there is always the possibility that incorrect vote totals have occurred somewhere. That doesn't mean counting over and over and over again makes it less of statistical dead heat, or even more accurate. There are ALWAYS disputed ballots. Something like 2+% get tossed out EVERY election. The losing side often has a few voters and party stalwarts who bring legal action. This is nothing new. However, at the uppermost levels, the people in question RARELY take action and, in the past, have accepted their fate.