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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (1708)	11/21/2000 9:45:11 AM
From: Benchman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3887

What about the 5 page memo the dems put out advising how to reject overseas military ballots? It seems they were really trying to "help" the canvassing boards follow those orders. Rob

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (1708)	11/21/2000 10:06:19 AM
From: lml	Respond to of 3887

Well, Ken: I preferred not to get involved in this minutia debate of he said, she said. But in response to your post I would argue that what got many riled up against the Democrats was not necessarily the rejection of non-postmarked overseas ballots per se, but (1) the disproportionate number coming out out Palm Beach County, and Broward County, and (2) the memo that was circulated to the media from a Democratic lawyer instructing Democratic observers how get overseas military ballots rejected. Notwithstanding, any recent tactics employed by Republicans that you might find distasteful, they are indisputably in response to earlier tactics employed by Democratic operatives. This is human nature, and because of the tremendous partisanship in the Democratic favor in the counties in which manual count are taking place, combined with Democratic tactics that are arguably unscrupulous, one could conclude the Republicans had no choice to resort the SAME and BALANCED type of tactics in order to preserve the integrity of a FAIR and BALANCED election. Look, at this point, I think some Gore people are close to conceding the election, not as a result of a pending State Supreme Court decision, but rather the paucity of votes forthcoming from these counties. Because of the lack of votes coming up for Gore, there now is a push to included dimpled ballots. But I ask you, Ken, without a commensurate response by the Republicans, how far would the Gore campaign have gone to skew the true election results in South Florida to steal this election? IMHO, without a commensurate Republican response, the Democrats would have gone to a sufficiently great length necessary to make Al Gore the winner in Florida. And that would have undermined the underpinning of a free and fair election process.