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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (225)	11/30/2000 4:07:03 AM
From: Carl R.	Respond to of 644

I do not know how many total chads were being found, but I know that one day alone it was 170, so your estimates are definitely on the low side, and I'm not sure that it would be accounted for by static alone. Unlike you, I do not believe that there is any absolute "truth" that can be ascertained. I believe that the error rate on human counts is probably higher than the .1% error rate on machine counts, and since the election was within .1%, I believe that if there were 100 counts there would be 100 different results even if the same rules were enforced as to what constitutes a valid vote. Furthermore I think the results of 100 counts would be even more extremely different if you used different rules each time. I have little doubt that under some counting rules Gore would win some counts while Bush would win others. There may be some rules for counting that would cause Bush to win all counts and different rules that would cause Gore to win all counts, but I suspect that regardless of the rules selected if you did 100 counts each candidate would win some counts and lose others. I see the patterns of behavior differently than you do. I don't see either side looking for the "truth". I see Bush content with the results as they are and therefore trying to preserve what he has. I see Gore as not content with what he has, and therefore continuously trying to change the rules, trying frantically to find a set of rules under which he comes out on top. Neither is interested in the "truth", but only in a "truth" that shows them on top. If perchance Gore finds a count that shows him on top, watch to see him move to have that count declared final. If a manual count of Miami-Dade is done and moves him in front, do you really think he will demand a recount of the Republican counties to make sure all those votes are counted too? Between the two candidates, I see Bush's behavior as the natural behavior of someone who has won and wants to defend the results, and Gore's behavior as the despicable, pathetic grasping at straws of a loser unwilling to admit defeat, and a loser willing to sacrifice the good of the country for his personal gain. When I say that, keep in mind that I voted for Browne for President and a mix of Republicans and Democrats for other offices. Because of the animosity that is increasingly being generated by this whole dispute (on both sides) I do not think that the next presidency is going to "fun" one regardless of who takes office. Carl