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

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (8117)	11/30/2000 7:14:30 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

And I believe it is their open hypocrisy with regard to "cherry-picking" certain select democratic counties for recount after recount of anonymous ballots, claiming that "every vote represents a human voice", yet they are unwilling to lend MORE credence to the absentee ballots that ARE NOT ANONYMOUS, have been signed by the voter, and can be readily verified. Ron, a couple of points: "Cherry-picking" is the method prescribed by Florida law, which permits each party to ask for recounts in up to 4 counties within 72 hours of the election. It may be stupid, but it is the law. The Republican tactic has been to blame the Democrats (who are admittedly scrapping for votes and have their fair share of hypocrisy) for every stupidity of Florida election law. Anything to stop a recount. This "recount after recount" line is nonsense. Only Broward and Volusia have been recounted officially. Palm Beach County's recount is not official, and Dade never got recounted. Nothing in our election process says anything about giving more credence to absentee ballots; the usual presumption of the law is that absentee ballots are more prone to fraud and must be carefully certified. Therefore the Florida laws about dates, postmarks, voter ids, etc.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (8117)	11/30/2000 7:25:12 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Ron and All~couple of questions: Is there a site that shows the vote tallys in other counties in FL that used the same type machines as the heavily Democratic ones in South FL? Were the people in the other counties able to use the same type of ballots correctly without the kind of problem that seems to be questioned by the Gore team? Also, does anyone know just how many TOTAL government workers there are in the USA? And how many union workers (all unions together)????? Might be very interesting to know those totals....Think "blue spots" in the red map....