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

To: Lane3 who wrote (7170)	11/22/2000 10:27:14 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 10042

interactive.wsj.com Some Unscientific Experiments Find That Chads Can Survive a Beating By LEE GOMES Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL <snip> Worried Americans can probably relax. A battery of admittedly unscientific tests, conducted by The Wall Street Journal, indicates that these chads are actually pretty tough. They aced the Drop Test, breezed through the Fan Test and held their own through much, much worse. <snip> Cat Test The ballot was rubbed against a six-year old female domestic shorthair house cat (Kuka). The test was intended to last for 10 minutes but, because the cat wouldn't cooperate, it lasted only 30 seconds. Dislodged chads: 0. Boiling Oil Test Finally, the ballot was placed for 10 minutes in a frying pan with an inch of vegetable oil that had been pre-heated to boiling, then removed. (The ballot was completely black when taken out.) Dislodged chads: One (where it was accidentally pierced by the tine of a fork during removal from frying pan).

To: Lane3 who wrote (7170)	11/22/2000 10:35:06 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

The Demos have lost and lost and manual recounts were not gaining enough to win( especially with Rep. absentees to be added back). In desperation they have now locked out the Republican observers from the counting room and started counting dimpled ballots as votes for Gore and exposing the whole sinful charade to the public. Win at all costs, including destruction of the whatever shreds of public trust now remaining in our election process. Sig