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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (6829)	11/19/2000 7:43:45 PM
From: david james	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Ok, I was trying to stick to the one idea that the process of judging the ballots is biased. Address one point at a time. As you will see in my previous posts, I seem to be one of those few that feel that both sides have some good reasons to be upset. There is no purely correct side here. However, it seems you agree that the actual process of judging the ballots is relatively unbiased since both Repulicans and Democrats are involved equally in the decision. Another issue is whether any region should be hand counted when the machine shows that there are a relatively high percentage that registered "no vote" on the machines. I am fully in support of that because I believe that many of these non-votes come from machine errors. A quite different issue involves the Military ballots. Many ballots were not counted because they were missing a postmark. Personally I feel that if the Military ballots contained other information that proves they were sent by the day of the election, then they should be accepted. But I don't think you would support accepting any ballots that were sent in the days after it was realized that Florida was going to play such a pivotal role - whether they came from the Military or retired folk that have paid taxes their whole lives. cnn.com "Military postal regulations require that a postmark be affixed." "It is a fact, regrettably, that a number of absentee ballots from overseas U.S. military personnel do not bear a postmark," the senator continued, attributing the omissions to "human error."