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

To: Neil H who wrote (100318)	12/4/2000 2:43:04 PM
From: Dan B.	Respond to of 769667

It is shamfull the way Gore seeks territorial, vote-recovery derived, counting advantages against the intent of the Fla. legislature, our constitution, and the sensibilities many reasonable persons(including 24% of Gore voters who say he should concede, IMO). Dan B

To: Neil H who wrote (100318)	12/4/2000 7:38:31 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

>>>Texas has not certified yet because of Dem. lawsuit<<< Gee, I didn't know they had lawsuits in Florida, but that didn't stop quick-gun Ambassador-elect Katherine Harris from certifying, did it? (LOL) Oh, well. >>>If ballots would be handcounted fairly and votes not fabricated, then there would be less problem doing the count. Broward County is why the Repubs believe the Dems will steal the election if they recount by hand the ballots. It was shameful the way they went about that.<<< Florida law didn't stipulate you had to be a certain kind of people living in a certain kind of county when the legislature passed law enabling hand recounts in specific counties. Hey, things fall where they do. If those counties were disignated to be counted, they should have been counted. Bush played unfair here. Gore, meanwhile, has declined to intervene in the Seminole and Martin county lawsuits. He's not trying to do to Bush what Bush did to him. I think Gore's only statement on the matter of Seminole and Martin is something like: if it's true, it's unfair. There were problems in Volusia County where the socialist candidate was credited with something like 10,000 votes. Good reason to ask for a handcount there. Palm Beach was obvious becuase of the outcry. Subsequent analysis as to the kind of voting equipment Broward and Miami-Dade used prompted the other two counties to be called for recount. On balance, it was a fair request for the hand recount in the four counties. Had the shoe been on the other foot, Bush would have requested pricisely the same kind of hand recount if he knew they were problem-plagued from the technology of the voting machines and it was also demonstrated that the counties were supportive of his candidacy. Had Bush requested this, it would have been fair too. Frankly, the Democrats disn't have any choice but to ask for hand recounts where they did. Hey, that was the move and Bush would have done so similarly. Right now, there are two lingering questions: a) Will the never-before-counted and the contested votes timely be counted so as to produce a real winner? and, b) Was the hanky-panky in both Seminole and Martin counties sufficiently blatant enough not count thousands of absentee ballot votes? That's it. That's where we stand right now. And even being here is shameful: Bush should have allowed the recount to happen unimpeded. So it goes.