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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (4310)	12/2/2000 7:27:20 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Respond to of 6710

You have a much better way with words then I do but that is what I have been saying all along. Every vote that was a legally cast vote has been counted numerous times, the votes we all argue about are not votes at all and thus aren't counted as such. Jeff

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (4310)	12/2/2000 10:48:29 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

I think there are undoubtedly cases where legitimate votes did not comply with the rules. Human beings are not perfect, and it's not asking too much to cut them a little slack once in a while. I don't have a problem with counting votes that the machine couldn't count within strict parameters. If you caught the testimony of Judge Burton, the male member of the Palm Beach County Canvassing Committee, it seems to me that, while I would have been stricter than he was, he was careful about deciding when to decide whether a chad which was not completely torn off was actually a vote. And so even though there were many, many undervotes in Palm Beach, about 10,000, they didn't count but a few hundred votes for Gore and just a couple hundred less for Bush. I found that satisfactory.