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

To: TH who wrote (99869)	12/4/2000 12:08:10 AM
From: Neenny	Respond to of 769670

TH, I agree with you again.....maybe you are indeed a smart man, as I initially thought..... smiles Jane

To: TH who wrote (99869)	12/4/2000 12:49:53 AM
From: amadeus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"IF THE VOTE WERE FLAWLESS..." has anyone commented on this? it shows a win by 23,000 votes for gore if all ballots were cast and counted correctly. have heard it in the news on cnn, and local radio. my thoughts are that it is probably too conservative, especially given the percentage of undervotes in black precincts often ranged from 12% to as high as 1/3, given they represent over 900,000 votes.. and voted in extraordinarily high percentages for gore. of course our system is not flawless, and the will of the people is not paramount in our system anyway. if it were, only the popular vote would matter. ////////// miamiherald.com >>>In a race so tight, it may never be known for certain. But an analysis commissioned by The Herald of voting patterns in each of the state's 5,885 precincts suggests that Florida likely would have gone to Al Gore -- by a slim 23,000 votes -- rather than George W. Bush, the officially certified victor by the wispy margin of 537. >> The analysis also confirmed that the voters in Democratic precincts had a far greater chance of having their ballots rejected. Only 1 in every 40 ballots were rejected in precincts Bush won, while 1 of every 27 ballots were rejected in precincts Gore won. >>Statewide, at least 185,000 ballots were discarded, rejected as either undervotes (failing for whatever reason to successfully mark a ballot or punch out a chad) or overvotes (selecting more than one candidate for whatever reason). That number includes rejected absentee ballots. If those ballots had been included and those voters behaved like their neighbors in the same precincts, Bush would have gotten about 78,000 (42 percent) of the uncounted votes and Gore would have gotten more than 103,000 (56 percent). The remaining 4,000 or so would have gone to the minor candidates. >> even if the analysis were adjusted to include the remote possibility that 90 percent of voters whose ballots were discarded actually intended to skip the race, the margin still would make a decisive difference for Gore -- about 1,400 votes.