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To: Ellen who wrote (86241)	11/24/2000 8:51:27 AM
From: U Up U Down	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

DIMPLES AREN'T VOTES Published Friday, November 24, 2000, in the Miami Herald Different tests to discern intent are patently unfair. The best way to determine if a dimpled ballot should count in the ongoing manual recount of presidential ballots is generous application of the common-sense test. Under this standard, if the voter's intent isn't clearly discernible, the vote shouldn't count. Period. No ifs, ands or buts. herald.com

To: Ellen who wrote (86241)	11/24/2000 10:41:08 AM
From: Proton	Respond to of 769670

Re: The "Seminole Fix" Big Lie "Dear, sweet, informative Ellen's" disinformation is exposed by John Fund (reference: opinionjournal.com ) In addition, a Democratic lawyer (with the silent assent of the Gore campaign) is pursuing a lawsuit seeking to have every one of Seminole County's 15,000 absentee ballots thrown out. The suit, to be heard next week, alleges that the local elections supervisor allowed Republicans to write in the voter identification number on 4,700 absentee ballot request forms that had been delivered to her office. No one alleges any tampering with the ballots themselves, but Democrats insist that clerical additions to ballot applications renders the votes invalid. Because all the absentee votes have been mixed together, the Democrats are demanding that 10,000 absentee voters with perfectly proper applications and ballots be nullified. This was too much even for liberal writer Jacob Weisberg [yet another left-wing defector!]. He wrote in Slate that "if you want to count dimpled chad, I don't think you should go around trying to invalidate ballots in which a voter made a minor mistake." He concludes that "through this double standard, Gore's pregnant chad threaten to give birth to an equally illegitimate presidency." P.