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

To: AmericanVoter who wrote (7906)	11/28/2000 8:07:04 AM
From: Oak Tree	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

Statistially, as you've said, gore easily won Florida. Statistically, other analyses could also say that the election in Florida is a draw (if you flip a coin lots of times you never get 50:50 -- and 50.01 vs 49.99 is a draw). Technically, however, due to the operational aspects of counting votes, and the archaic system used, George won florida. Now things get real sticky. Black/Hispanic/Jewish votes somehow were tossed because they didn't have a punch or because of the butterfly. On the other hand, errors on "republican" ballets were secretly corrected by two guys in a smokey room (on the mis-written 5000 absecntee ballets). One has to wonder if they also bothered to correct the mis-written Gore votes. The latter issue is a serious problem, the former just a technical one. Indeed, if there was vote "fixing" or even "repairing" those guys should be in jail. The short version is that it really won't much matter who gets it but Gore by far deserves florida.

To: AmericanVoter who wrote (7906)	11/28/2000 8:13:24 AM
From: Wren	Respond to of 10042

I found the following on another site. <<Here are the exact instructions to the voter in Palm Beach County Florida: "AFTER VOTING, CHECK YOUR BALLOT CARD TO BE SURE YOUR VOTE SELECTIONS ARE CLEARLY AND CLEANLY PUNCHED AND THERE ARE NO CHIPS LEFT HANGING ON THE BACK OF THE CARD.">> Why should the election be decided by trying to guess at the vote of people that can not follow simple instructions?? Why do they deserve a second chance to be heard??