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To: Dan3 who wrote (120223)	12/2/2000 2:20:42 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Dear Dan3: If ballots are thrown out for problems with the applications in Martin and Seminole Counties, then that same argument applies even more forcefully to Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami Dade Counties where true illegal ballots and obvious vote fraud occurred. Thus Gore would lose by over 500K votes and thus lose Florida by a substantial margin, the Electoral College, and most important in a PR way, the US Popular vote. All of the above are highly unlikely, so get off of this topic but, you can see that for Gore to win one of the first two would cause him to lose even more by the loss of all of the vote in Palm Beach County. It would serve as poetic justice to someone who should have conceeded gracefully instead of trying to win it by dragging the election system through the mud. In the future, this will cause a tightening of the procedures to make sure that someone is not able to vote or has already voted, can't, to reduce the inherent error, and to speed up the process so that an election even as close as this would be settled in less than a week after an election. This would stop the machines that were mainly run by big city Democrats (Cook County Illinois is a famous example although there probably were some run by Republicans), the felon vote, the dead people vote, the multiple votes vote, simple ballot box stuffing vote, and most of the other types of election fraud. A precident from this case could be used, Republican and Democratic observers being with each ballot box to prevent stuffing and maintaining separate ballot totals to cross check that no ballots were changed or added to between the vote stations and the county tabulation department. No votes would be missed or counted more than once. What an election that would be! An ideal election where the vote was not in dispute and could be relied upon to be fair and unbiased. There may be grumbling at who won but, not that one won. That would be the one of the few silver linings in this sorry mess. Pete