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

To: Ellen who wrote (99626)	12/3/2000 6:05:30 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Ellen, you should be happy rather than frustrated. Bush will become president, but it will be a pyrrhic victory. He will spend his four years watching a parade of books, scholarly studies, and articles proving that a lot more people voted for Gore in Florida than him. This is not the 19th century. Democrats will have a lot of fun with Bush as president. The mid term elections will prove a disaster for Republicans, and Gore or Hillary will return triumphant to the Presidency in 2004 with solid control of Congress to boot.

To: Ellen who wrote (99626)	12/3/2000 6:13:19 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 769670

Ellen, I agree with you regarding objective analysis. It's very tough. But let me see if I can simplify this issue even further. (from my point of view of course) :) Democrats and Republicans sent out absentee ballot applications which were pre-printed with the voter registration numbers. The Republicans had a printing error, which omitted ID numbers from a bunch of ballots, so they filled them in by hand. The Democrats argue what the Republicans did violated a Florida law that says only the voter, an immediate family member or a guardian can fill out an absentee ballot application. However, in a practical sense, whether the voter registration number is pre-printed, or filled in later by hand, you've accomplished basically the same thing. So, if the Republicans violated the law, so did the Democrats. Filling in the registration number by itself does not constitute filling out an absentee application. They are two entirely different things. The law clearly favors the voter not being disenfranchised unless fraud is involved. Therefore, I see it as an extremely remote possibility they will throw out 15K votes.