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To: CAtechTrader who wrote (17578)	11/18/2000 8:08:36 AM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Respond to of 65232

Trench warfare: washingtonpost.com WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Nov. 17-The county canvassing board was slogging through a pile of absentee ballots today when it found problems with one military vote and decided not to count it. A Republican lawyer observing the process objected indignantly to disenfranchising "our military men overseas." "We'll file a protest and arrange for violins," replied Judge Charles E. Burton, the beleaguered chairman of the canvassing board. At another point, when one of the lawyers objected to an overseas ballot even before he had looked at it, an exasperated Burton exclaimed to his television audience: "Can anyone outside wonder why this board has been bogged down in the process of counting ballots?" So it went in a bleak building among the palm trees here, and 41 miles to the south in Broward County, as the manual recount entered a period of chad-by-chad trench warfare. And so it promised to go in Miami-Dade County, which suddenly reversed itself today and announced it would embark on the gargantuan task of reviewing by hand all 650,000 ballots cast in the county 10 long days ago. The going was even slower than expected. In Palm Beach, bogged down by a tide of objections they dismissed as groundless, officials said today they had finished recounting and reviewing two out of 531 precincts after 16 hours of work. The result as of midafternoon: a net gain of one vote for Texas Gov. George W. Bush.

To: CAtechTrader who wrote (17578)	11/18/2000 9:31:07 AM
From: Voltaire	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 65232

Morning CT, Relax my man. PSYCHOLOGY AND LOGIC WILL WIN OUT - Like I have said before this hunt is over, you can piss on the fire and call the dogs. The best thing that could have ever happened for Bush is when the Fla. Supreme Court decided to hear this debacle and also allowed all counting to continue. Every hour that passes just confirms the asininity of what is before us, but more than that, it reveals the only solution. That solution will be for the Fla. SC to render a verdict for the Sec. of State, not because they truly believe nor desire such a decision but because to do otherwise places their court and the country in a no-end situation. Very simple - Sec. of State wins Bush wins Gore concedes Country wins Stock Market wins Voltaire

To: CAtechTrader who wrote (17578)	11/18/2000 10:02:34 AM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 65232

Bush lead went from 300 to 927 despite huge disqualifications disputes over absentees seems muchmuch greater than simple ballots my guess is that over 2/3 of absentes ballots are nixed the Bush lead would be at least 2000 otherwise dont be surprised by the time the farce in WPalm, Broward, and Dade is completed, that the Bush lead is under 10 votes reports of growing confusion in WPalmBch County with slow progress and growing pct of disputed ballots Broward County partial results: 20% done, +37 for Gore I expect to see at least a dozen lawsuits pending by the time a final tally is in hand every conceivable confict has arisen I think it is conceivable that Florida will not participate in the Electoral College I believe a DNA test should have been required for registered Democrats I have strong doubts they are human numerous impersonations in my eyes in recent days / Jim

To: CAtechTrader who wrote (17578)	11/18/2000 11:19:57 AM
From: Selectric II	Respond to of 65232

As I saw Clinton standing in a Vietnamese rice paddy, watching searchers sift the earth for remains of a US pilot shot down during the war, I wondered whether that pilot's final absentee election ballot had been thrown out on a technicality, such as not being postmarked by the military postmaster. Is it just a coincidence that Clinton is currying favor with Vietnam vets while disenfranchising our current military overseas? I doubt it. More Clinton/Gore political hypocrisy.