To: Zakrosian who wrote (8228 ) 11/27/2000 5:39:36 PM From: Zeev Hed Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 30051 Well, I think that the courts will have their hands full. One of the tid bits I picked up was from an old guy that worked for year for the manufacturer of these machines, and indeed, according to him, the row used most often (the presidential row?) deteriorates with time causing weaker people (the old and infirms? is the partition of that population weighed in favor of the democrats?) no to be (easily) able to penetrate the ballot. Sure there are always going to be 1% to 2% of the voters that voted faultily, but then, why accept 4700 "faulty ballots" (Duval county? or was it Seminole?) where Republican operatives filled part of the applications (ballots?) illegally? If one is going to be nit-picking those voting wrongly for Buchanan, or those not pressing hard enough, one surely should be throwing out ballots that are, according to state law, illegal. If the difference was not a mere few hundreds votes (fully compensated by few hundreds of Democratic votes thrown out due to other illegalities, like not counting "all ballots" manually and in time) then application of the same strict law should be demanded for those 4700 ballots and Gore then handily won the elections in Florida. Because of all these shenanigans, and the fact that without these, Gore would have been both the popular winner and electoral winner, I and 50 MM other voters that voted for Gore, have the right to know what the true vote was, what the legally true vote was and what the certified vote was, and why there are differences between these three types of counts. It is not like the "contest" process is illegal or something like that, it is the right thing to do, and just because Bush has nothing to gain by letting the process go through, I do not think he is helping himself by questioning the process itself and trying to rush to close the issue. I, for one, would like to know exactly what the Florida vote was. Zeev