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

To: Dan B. who wrote (104971)	12/7/2000 11:10:51 PM
From: Frank Griffin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Dan, I don't think Bush is devious enough that he would have even thought of trying to count ballots with the chad intact.

To: Dan B. who wrote (104971)	12/8/2000 3:35:27 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Of course the whole state should have been recounted. But I don't think one candidate is allowed to ask for that during the protest phase. What's unusual in this case is, generally it's not known beforehand which candidate will benefit from a recount. So if one asks, both ask, and it's ordered. Here both sides knew recounts would benefit Gore due to the enormous numbers of undervotes in Democratic areas. I think throwing out 3% or 5% or 9% of your ballots is definitely irregular, not part of the normal error rate of the machines. Had there been any party impartially interested in who actually won the election, a full recount, or at least a full manual count of the whole state's undervote, would have been ordered.