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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ellen who wrote (3006)	11/29/2000 4:11:17 PM
From: cutiger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3887

Here comes the race card: news.excite.com NAACP Plans Suit Over Voting Biases Updated 12:23 PM ET November 29, 2000 By SHEILA HOTCHKIN, Associated Press Writer BALTIMORE (AP) - NAACP President Kweisi Mfume said Wednesday that the nation's largest civil rights organization plans to sue over alleged voting irregularities in the presidential election in Florida. Mfume said the NAACP will sue the state and several counties, seeking unspecified relief. The NAACP also is asking local chapters to hold hearings into whether voting irregularities occurred in other states. The NAACP president said he already has presented the Justice Department with complaints of voting irregularities, but the NAACP has received only one telephone call in response, simply thanking him for the referral. "This is a strange stance from this Justice Department, which continues to get colder as it nears the end of its term," Mfume said. The NAACP hopes to sue soon, perhaps by next week, Mfume said. The civil rights group also plans to organize demonstrations nationwide protesting the treatment of minority voters on Election Day, Mfume said. Two days after the election, Mfume called for sweeping federal involvement in the Florida presidential race, asking the Justice Department to investigate complaints of election irregularities and for federal marshals to supervise the ballot recount. NAACP field workers in Florida alleged then that four ballot boxes in heavily black precincts, including the Richmond Heights section of Miami, were not picked up. Mfume also cited several other incidents at the time, which he said suggested efforts to dilute the minority vote in Florida.

To: Ellen who wrote (3006)	11/29/2000 4:28:26 PM
From: cutiger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3887

Ellen, I don't think that he is necessarily asking for a manual recount. He is protecting against a manual recount of just the disputed ballots. A manual recount must include all of the county's ballots, not a select few. js

To: Ellen who wrote (3006)	11/29/2000 8:59:20 PM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3887

A fair recount would include the entire state, not just the heavy democratic counties .. If you are able to salvage 5% of the votes by way of the manual recount then the process should be applied to the entire state. That should produce precicly the same percentage results for the state as the first electronic count. When you manage to salvage 5% of 10,000 ballots in an area that had (for example) a 60/40 split in that county then you would gain .. 10k.05 or 500 votes .. with a 60/40 ratio that would result in 300 and 200 votes respectivly .. or a gain for Gore of 100 new votes. All that would have to be done is to find enough areas to recount that were weighted toward Gore and .. bingo .. It is not a fair process .. it does not properly reflect the vote of the entire state. To be fair you would want to also manually recount the votes from counties that were heavly in favor of Bush also. The point is that, after two weeks of Gore trying to milk as many votes in his favor as he can, he still* didn't get enough votes. As for Bush asking for a recount of all of the ballots, I would guess that they are betting that there would not be enough time to do that before 12/18 .. The current certification would then still be in effect.