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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bob who wrote (96887)	12/1/2000 10:54:12 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Florida SC had no right to ignore that law. Why did the Nassau republicans think they had the right to toss out machine counted votes for Gore? Where is your outrage? You might have overlooked it; references to it were buried in the midst of a long piece on a jump page in the Saturday, Nov. 25 New York Times. It involved a decision by the election board of Nassau County, “a Republican enclave in Florida’s northeast corner.” With no legal notice, the Republican election board head threw out the results of the legally mandated machine re-count. There were no hand-count or hanging-chad issues here; this was the automatic re-count every Florida county was required to perform the day after the election because of the closeness of the vote. The legally mandated re-count had slightly increased Al Gore’s totals. The county board’s decision to discard the re-count and certify the original count, The Times reported, “cost Mr. Gore 52 votes.” Not much, but enough—if included with other re-count totals in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade that were also excluded—to give Mr. Gore a nine-vote lead, his lawyers claimed. TP