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To: Ilaine who wrote (38626)	11/17/2000 6:22:19 PM
From: pater tenebrarum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

i found something else: Dr. Tom Carroll, economics professor at the University of Nevada-a Democrat-has run a statistical analysis on the net vote recount gains for Gore ( 2,200 ) and Bush ( 700 ) , and determined that the probability for the occurrence of these gains as "random glitches" is "infinitesimal." "The probability of being struck by lightning is about one in a million. The same person would have to be hit by lightning 30 times to compare with what we've seen in this recount. A recount is a 50-50 proposition, so statistically speaking, making up something like 1,700 votes is highly unlikely. For this to have been just random error is statistically unlikely. It wouldn't be unlikely to see some changes in the number of votes during a recount, but the differences should come much closer to canceling each other out." And this... By Chad Groening ( AgapePress ) - Judicial Watch is accusing the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Florida of deliberately engaging in a scheme to enhance Democratic voter turnout on election day. The Washington, DC-based watchdog group told WorldNetDaily that the program in question "is nearly identical to the now infamous 1996 Citizenship USA program." Back then, Judicial Watch said, thousands of aliens--some with criminal backgrounds--were improperly and illegally rushed through the naturalization process in order to obtain votes for the Presidential election. Judicial Watch's charges about the 1996 election have been confirmed by David Schippers, the former chief counsel for the House Judiciary Committee who prosecuted President Clinton's impeachment. Schippers said Vice President Al Gore was in charge of the program, and was "responsible for keeping pressure on, making sure the aliens were pushed through by September 1, the last day to register for the Presidential election." Now, four years later, a source told Judicial Watch that the Florida INS ran an effort called the "Backlog Reduction Program," in which INS examiners were rewarded with various types of bonuses, including an extra 40 hours of time off. The legal watchdog group also said its source revealed some of the naturalization processes were allegedly performed illegally, including allowing non-English speaking aliens to be interviewed in their native language. Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman says his group will pursue these charges no matter who occupies the White House. or this..... It appears that the designer of the now-infamous butterfly ballot in Palm Beach County, Florida, recently voted against a manual recount in an even more closely contested race in her own county. The Wall Street Journal reports that only two months ago, Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore voted to deny a manual recount for Beverly Green, a GOP candidate who lost a state house primary by a mere 13 votes. "It wasn't that close," LePore explained then. "The manual count is historically only when it's in single digits." LePore joined with fellow Democrat Carol Roberts earlier this week to approve a manual recount of the county's 463,000 Presidential votes-based on a sampling that indicated as many as 1,900 votes may not have been picked up in earlier counting.