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To: lawdog who wrote (103653)	12/6/2000 6:03:36 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769667

Yes. JLA

To: lawdog who wrote (103653)	12/6/2000 6:09:32 PM
From: Qone0	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Important Statistics: Population of counties won by Gore: 127 million Population of counties won by Bush: 143 million Sq. miles of country won by Gore: 580,000 Sq. miles of country won by Bush: 2,427,000 States won by Gore: 19 States won by Bush: 29 Average Murder per 100,000 residents in counties won by Gore: 13.2 Average Murder per 100,000 residents in counties won by Bush: 2.1 Why do the counties won by Gore have more murders lawdog?

To: lawdog who wrote (103653)	12/6/2000 6:10:42 PM
From: maverick61	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Lawlessmutt - perhaps this is the stories NewsMax makes up: Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2000 3:56 p.m. EST Seminole Plaintiff Jacobs Caught in TV Lie Earlier this week Harry Jacobs, the plaintiff in Florida's Seminole County absentee ballot case, admitted under oath that he'd consulted with lawyers for Vice President Al Gore. Understandably, Jacobs was reluctant to make the confession, since Gore continues to publicly insist he has nothing to do with the lawsuit that seeks to have state Judge Nikki Clark toss out 15,000 completely legal votes in order to tip the election the veep's way. No one was more surprised by Jacobs' confession than Chris Matthews, host of CNBC's "Hardball," who replayed video of the Democratic activist when he appeared on his show last Wednesday and denied any such contacts: MATTHEWS: Have you had any contact with Ron Klain or any of the attorneys for the Gore campaign? JACOBS: No, sir. MATTHEWS: None at all? No contact with the Gore people at all in Washington or in Florida? JACOBS: Well, I can tell you that I've talked to a lot of Democrats. I've also spoken to a lot of Republicans. Whether or not they have some official capacity, that's something unknown to me. I'm pursuing this case on my own. MATTHEWS: You got no signal urging you on, for example; no cheering section from anybody connected to Gore? JACOBS: Not that I'm aware of. When placed under oath three days later, Jacobs acknowledged talking to Gore campaign attorneys Mitchell Berger and Mark Herron.

To: lawdog who wrote (103653)	12/6/2000 6:11:42 PM
From: maverick61	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Or perhaps this one lawlessmutt - another one "MADE UP" - lol Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2000 9:51 a.m. EST Gore Caught Telling Seminole Case Whopper If you were as confused as we were Tuesday when Vice President Al Gore charged that Democrat absentee ballot applications were "thrown out" by Republican election officials in Seminole County, Fla., don't worry. You didn't miss what would undoubtedly be a bombshell development, one as yet unreported anywhere else. It turns out that no absentee ballot applications - Democrat or Republican - were thrown out in Seminole. Gore simply made the allegation up out of whole cloth. "More than enough votes were potentially taken away from Democrats because they were not given the same access as Republicans," Gore told reporters outside the White House. "Remember, according to what's come out in that case ... Democrats were denied an opportunity to come in, denied a chance to even look at the applications, and those applications were thrown out." "Now, that doesn't seem fair to me," Gore complained. Only the New York Daily News noted Gore's whopper, first citing the above quote, then explaining to its readers: "The vice president misstated the central issue in the case. ... The suit does not make that allegation (that Democrat applications were thrown out). The Democratic Party did not need to alter ballot applications because the forms it had mailed to voters included all the needed information." The New York Times and the New York Post simply reported Gore's comment without noting its inaccuracy. Last Thursday the Wall Street Journal explained why Republicans alone were given access to absentee ballot applications in Seminole County, revealing a key detail omitted from almost all coverage of the case before or since: "The controversy centers on Florida's requirement that applications for absentee ballots contain voter identification numbers. Both parties sent out many applications with these numbers already filled in by computer. But software error caused the omission of numbers from some sent out by the Republicans. ... There was no similar problem on applications mailed out by the Democrats."