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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Vendit™ who wrote (2589)	11/18/2000 6:33:03 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

>>Nearly 425,000 votes were counted on behalf of both Al Gore and George W. Bush in Palm Beach County. Thus, cumulative "overvotes" and "undervotes" in Palm Beach County represented 7 percent of the vote cast for the two major party candidates. This fact represented an "irregularity" or an "anomaly" — take your pick. In Duval County, by way of comparison, there were 26,000 "overvotes" and "undervotes," or 10 percent of the 260,000 votes cast for the two major candidates. Yet, Mr. Gore's campaign identified no "irregularity" or "anomaly" there, and has sought no manual recount. Why not? Call us cynical, but from here it seems that Palm Beach County, where Mr. Gore received 64 percent of the two-party vote, offered a far more attractive opportunity to search for additional votes by way of an arbitrary manual recount than was offered by Duval County, where Mr. Bush enjoyed a 17-percent advantage over Mr. Gore.<< LOL!