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

To: greenspirit who wrote (80626)	11/18/2000 12:35:17 AM
From: E	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

I know that if a machine has a half percent or one percent rate of error, and the difference between the candidates is a percentage of that, and a hand count is conducted not by one party but by both working together, those whom I have no reason to doubt (the manufacturers, the states, the testers, Governor George Bush of Texas) say it is the most accurate count there is. So of course I believe it, not being a grandiose mystic who thinks I somehow know more than the experts and Governor Bush about these machines. If you are implying that people can cheat, of course they can. They can punch cards before they go into the machines. They can cheat behind the backs of others. They can read the machine results wrong when looking into the back of the polling booth. Common sense joins the experts and Bush in telling me that the least cheating is likely to take place with Democrats and Republicans working together, in public, determining, ballot by ballot, the vote. Of course it doesn't work that way. Only Democrats are participating in the hand count, as we know. It's just not fair.