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To: Barry Grossman who wrote (118818)	11/22/2000 9:05:13 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 186894

Re: Assuming there were 20-50 separate issues or offices on which to vote on the entire FL ballot, how many OTHER dimpled chads would you expect to find if you found ONE in the Gore column on a disputed ballot? Many people don't bother to vote for minor offices, so I'd think a ratio would be a better standard. Something along the lines of: at least half as many indented chads as punched chads, or all indents are ignored. To tell you the truth, I'd prefer dimpled chads to not be counted at all, but evidently that's the way it's done in hand recounts - and one of the reasons hand recounts are done is because the machines miss them. It's just the way our system works, like the Electoral college vs. using the popular vote to select the President. This gets back to what has always bothered me about G. W., he just signed a law that provided for hand counts in close elections, did he even read what he signed? Did he have any idea what the issues were? Why didn't he see this coming? What about his advisors? Recounts are standard in close elections in this country - where was the rest of G. W. while his right hand was signing a bill on recounts? Not calling for recounts in districts in which he did well (when his opponent was making a perfectly legitimate call for recounts in other districts) was the kind of sloppy, shortsighted decision that I'm afraid of him making as President. And 5 Clarence Thomas clones on the Supreme Court is a place I'd just as soon not go, either. Regards, Dan