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To: Dan3 who wrote (128930)	11/22/2000 12:37:34 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1579926

Dan, What I think is an issue is the selective nature of the recount, which is the result of Bush's strategy - he should have called for hand counts in districts that favored him, and it still isn't too late. I think you are missing the point. On one hand, you have the votes (extremely small percentage) that get rejected by machines, but are still reasonably clear to the human counter. These will add to both candidates roughly in the proportion of the vote within the county. On a statewide recount, not much would change about the outcome, and even doing it in only Democratic counties may not change the outcome. But you are left with disputed ballots. The Democrats have no qualms about stealing the election by judging these unfairly. Bush is just never going to operate on this level, expecting the Republican canvassing board members to steal the election for him. If my read of the man is correct, he will rather lose than do that. There is still a chance that Florida House of Representatives or US House of Representatives will do something about the travesty of justice that is unfolding right now. But don't expect Bush to fight one injustice with another. Joe

To: Dan3 who wrote (128930)	11/22/2000 3:05:35 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579926

Do you deny they the GOre campaign sent a five page memo to key precincts on "how to not count military ballots?" Hundreds of military ballots were thrown out in the 3 democratic counties, far more than all the other counties combined. The first story I heard on CNN and MSNBC said that most of them did not have postmarks and that is why they were thrown out. Later on, like the next day, I heard that there were "other problems" with the ballots. There is no law allowing ballots without postmarks, or late postmarks, of non-military absentees. So these should be properly thrown out. A complicating factor is that the FLorida absentee ballots had no place for a date on the ballot. Even Haterman said that they should be counted -- but that was just for public consumption and his aides told the election supervisors that it was "not a legal opinion." The hypocrisy of Gore is unprecedented. No military man would or should ever take an order from him. Petz