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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (8410)	12/4/2000 11:26:24 PM
From: Math Junkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

"Well, at least he can claim having invented legal contests to certified presidential elections. He's the first in our history..... And hopefully the last... <sigh>" <Sigh> yourself! He wasn't even close to being the first! And he probably won't be the last. From the Encyclopedia Brittanica: "An economic depression, however, and Northern disenchantment with Reconstruction policies in the South combined to give Hayes's Democratic opponent, Samuel J. Tilden, a popular majority, and early returns indicated a Democratic victory in the electoral college as well. However, Hayes's campaign managers challenged the validity of the returns from South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana, and as a result two sets of ballots were submitted from the three states." britannica.com msys.net The Kennedy election was contested in eleven states: "The Republicans pressed their case doggedly. They succeeded in obtaining recounts, empanelling grand juries, and involving U.S. attorneys and the FBI. Appeals were heard, claims evaluated, evidence weighed. The New York Times considered the charges in a Nov. 26 editorial. (Its bold verdict: 'It is now imperative that the results in each state be definitively settled by the time the electoral college meets.')" "Texas and Illinois, the two largest states under dispute, witnessed the nastiest fights. In Texas, where Kennedy won the 24 electoral votes by a margin of 46,000 ballots, the GOP took to the courts." slate.msn.com