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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: chomolungma who wrote (3896)11/29/2000 12:50:29 PM
From: TraderGreg  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6710
 
<<The second you bring humans into it you add partiality. That means that some person decides the election which isn't what democracy is all about. That's why I believe Bush was right all along in objecting to the hand counts. >>

I guess one's view on that is dependent on who is leading and who is trailing. Every close election I have ever followed(at all levels of govt) has always been decided by a manual count of the votes...I guess now that method has no validity.

Even a backwater hole will have touch screen voting in the near future...Sun, HP, IBM...who do you think will get the bulk of those contracts?

TG



To: chomolungma who wrote (3896)11/29/2000 6:19:29 PM
From: Windsock  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6710
 
Re: "That's why I believe Bush was right all along in objecting to the hand counts."

Bush signed a law in 1997 that gave manual recounts preference over electronic recounts. The law also says that dimples should be counted.

Bush now wants to reject manual recounts as fundamentally flawed and derides any attempt to count "dimples". A change of heart motivated solely by convenience.

Bush is, was and always has been a flaming, two-faced hypocrite.