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

To: chomolungma who wrote (1731)	11/21/2000 11:24:14 AM
From: MasonS	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3887

Pretty soon they will be counting the chads on the floor as implied votes for Gore...you are right...it's time for the Republicans to stand up and fight...

To: chomolungma who wrote (1731)	11/21/2000 1:59:36 PM
From: Ellen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3887

How, er, convenient that you just copy the part that suits your purpose. It reeks of the Republicans erroneously blaming the Democrats for Mrs. Harris' mistake on the military absentee ballot postmark issue because it suits their purpose. There should be a public outcry about the Republicans manufacturing information. The Republicans are doing what they accuse Democrats of doing. Here's that whole article: nypostonline.com NEXT: A RECOUNT OF THE RECOUNT Tuesday,November 21,2000 By KENNETH LOVETT, MALCOLM BALFOUR, DAVID SEIFMAN, and WILLIAM NEUMAN Election officials in Miami ordered a re-recount of ballots in two precincts where Al Gore lost votes in a hand count yesterday - sparking charges of bias from angry Republicans. Miami-Dade County election supervisor David Leahy said he believes the loss of eight Gore votes in one precinct and six in another was the result of an honest counting error - and should be rechecked. "In my mind, it's not logical," Leahy told The Post. "I can understand losing one or two votes, but it doesn't make any sense to lose six, seven or eight. I just want a fair count, that's what I'm interested in." George Bush gained three votes in each of the two precincts under question - for a net Bush gain of 20 in the two precincts. Leahy, who is not a member of a political party, said it was "hogwash" to suggest the recount of the recount was a partisan call. "We haven't gotten to the heavily Republican districts yet, and if I saw that George Bush lost eight votes I'd also want to recheck it," he said. Leahy said that in the first day of hand counting in Miami-Dade workers completed 64 out of 614 precincts - and only three of them showed a candidate losing votes rather than gaining them or holding steady. Two of those precincts are the ones that will be recounted again. The third, where Gore lost two votes, won't be retallied. "We're very concerned that Miami-Dade seems to be a manufacturing town, a vote-manufacturing town," said Rep. John Sweeney, a Republican from upstate New York on hand as an observer. "This board is showing that it's predisposed to lean heavily toward the Democrats and apparently is lacking all objectivity." The canvassing board has one Democrat and two independents, including Leahy. Meanwhile, in neighboring Broward County, Republicans got another shock when the only GOP member of the county's canvassing board abruptly quit, saying she plans to spend Thanksgiving with her son in California. "I can't continue with these 15-hour days," said Jane Carroll, the county's 70-year-old election supervisor. "I have to think of my health." Carroll's departure comes just as the canvassing board is about to begin evaluating hundreds of controversial ballots with "dimpled chads" - most of which appear to be potential Gore votes. The other two members of the canvassing board are Democrats. County judge Robert Rosenberg was appointed to take Carroll's place. Rosenberg changed his registration to Republican in the 1990s, the Miami Herald reported. Carroll said she and her husband bought plane tickets for the Thanksgiving trip "almost a year" ago. "I never realized how old I am until I went into this," she said. "This is like having an election day 10 days in a row . . . My husband finally called my doctor and he said, 'Get her out of here.'" To the north, Circuit Court Judge Jorge LaBarga rejected a suit seeking a new election in Palm Beach County because the ballot allegedly confused scores of Democrats who voted mistakenly for Reform Party nominee Pat Buchanan instead of Gore.