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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frank Griffin who wrote (6411)	11/17/2000 5:38:21 AM
From: Dan B.	Respond to of 10042

Cute, Frank...did you do that? I heard Hannity say that the author of the Fla. Hand-count law has spoken. He says the intent of the lawmakers in allowing for handcounts was for mechanical errors. ------------------------------------------------------Al Gore's Loving Error------------------------------------------------- Al Gore started a fight. The envisioned battle in which Governor Bush would have sought re-counts in his territory to match Gore's efforts is prepostorous on it's face; If this had precedent, hand-counts would have been like gimme putts in Golf- or mandated statewide automatic hand-counts of flawed chad infected ballots(the machines work great without the chad. Some inventor might think of a simple blower device to remove them prior to machine counting where they foul/fill holes). It is up to the discretion of each county election commission to order a handcount. We've seen that these commissions may be partisan. Hold that thought. Clearly the authors of these hand-count provisions never envisioned that state or national candidates, would make them a part of a battle to convince county election commissions on a county by county basis to add to their vote totals, by recovering ballots machines missed in partisan counties. A battle of this nature has no place in our Presidential elections. Al Gore praises the desire to let the will of the voters be told. Last week, as the loser by a whisker, and reasonably wanting to take his last fair chance while he could(certainly honorable), he considered hand-counting ballots. This was a grand opportunity for him. He had choices. It had to be obvious that the re-count was an historically standard nationwide level playing field(butterfly issues aside). He could have taken it upon himself to ask each and every chad infected county to employ the same method- the hand-count- thus creating another level statewide playing field. If he had, we'd be awaiting the results now, in peace. Or it would be finished by now. Wednesday morning after the election we heard his lawyers promising to back lawsuits numerous, and then he asked only for those counties that could favor him. There were other counties with thousands of kicked-out ballots, but he did not have an equal concern for the voters of those counties, and this is his grave error. Now, he wants to count them all, to be fair. But it's too late, the 72hr hand-count request deadline passed long ago. He offered to count them all finally, yet Al Gore still appears to feel getting his counties extra counted is an acceptable end game, near as anyone can tell. It took him a week to figure the first half of this out, and it's still not right(comparisons???Who?--no one. Al Gore is in the closest election by far in history- with odd new machines with quirks involved). Now, it seems only the courts can sort this out. It is quite clear this will go down as another Love Story. Dan B Freedom Works