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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (80434)	11/17/2000 10:30:56 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

So Bush was wrong about the superiority of hand counting, as are the machine manufacturers and sellers. And Democrats are more "amoral" than Republicans. Nice information you've got there. It's good there's no disinformation going around, or I'd have to look at it with skepticism. Look what came in my email on Nov 14. I didn't bother to pass it on or post it. Paranoia abounds. Some of it may be true, but you don't know which it is any more than the dude below who finds statistical evidence of corrupt Republicans does: The final totals for the recount are now in: Bush by less than 400, pending absentee ballots. But there's a very weird pattern in the totals by county, if you look at them at foxnews.com >From eyeballing this chart, the vast majority of the net change in the totals came from a very few counties where the change was heavily imabalanced in favor of Gore, with the bulk in just two: Palm Beach - net change +643 Pinellas --- net change +478 Duval --- net change +168 Gadsden --- net change +163 Polk --- net change +129 The highest changes in favor of Bush were Martin --- net change -105 Seminole --- net change -98 ---- (FWIW, last county to report) No other county that I can spot had as much as a fifty vote net change in favor of Bush. Note also that there were counties as populous as many of these (Hillsboro, Miami-Dade, Broward(!)) where the shifts weren't nearly as big, less than 50 --- some of which may have to do with what equipment is used where, to be sure. Even so, I am at a loss to explain how you generate numbers this skewed by rolling fair dice of any description; am I nuts, or is this statistical evidence of irregularity in the initial vote count ("let's just not count these ballots here")? Oh, BTW, speaking of absentee ballots, feedmag.com In 1998, Xavier Suarez was kicked out of the mayor's office after a jury found a pattern fraud in absentee ballots. Now he sits on the executive committee of the Miami-Dade Republican Party, in which capacity he "helped ... enlist Republican absentee voters" in this election. You couldn't make this stuff up...