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To: mishedlo who wrote (7365)	12/9/2000 4:46:01 AM
From: drew_m	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13572

I agree with your argument. If the shoe was on the other foot, the dems would be screaming to high heaven. Could you imagine a republican county hand counting votes, trying to read peoples minds. "Well they voted for all the other republican canidates this must be a vote for Bush" The Press would be going INSANE. Read what the Chief Justice wrote. Telling stuff. I dont know how all this will end, but end it must. Sorry for my tone earlier, that was unprofessional. I, as most of us are, am just fed up with the entire fiasco. Drew

To: mishedlo who wrote (7365)	12/9/2000 1:41:35 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13572

M.....something to consider...... If the wrong man is Enthroned.....Hmmmmm Tim To: Keith Feral who wrote (89565) From: Bux Friday, Dec 8, 2000 4:54 PM ET Reply # of 89679 Keith, I have always thought it odd that the undervotes were not counted statewide from the get-go in such a close contest. The law has been pretty clear that the candidate with the most votes wins and that in a close election we are not to rely only on the "machine" to do the counting. In other words, it is well recognized that a manual hand count gives a more accurate indication of the will of the people. Don't you want to make sure our next president was elected properly, not based upon incomplete returns. It will be bad enough if the legally elected president does not have the popular vote but would add insult to injury if it was later determined that he didn't even carry the electorial vote. After all, those ballots can be obtained under the freedom of information act. It is important to get the correct count now, not find out later we were wrong. I am all for a statewide manual count and don't think the Florida Legislature should interfere with the natural voting process. George Bush should have agreed to a statewide recount from day one. Yes, it will probably hurt our portfolios in the short-term but the effect should not last long. Bux

To: mishedlo who wrote (7365)	12/10/2000 12:19:51 AM
From: jjkirk	Respond to of 13572

Re: "The Republicans for the most part do not." That is pure unadulterated Bullswizzle, M. After this is over, Repubs will be the first to find a system that records every eligible voter's vote with 100% accuracy. (I would like for the new system to provide the voter with an intermediate step...a printout for review prior to having it scanned for the actual voting.) However, in this conflict, Republicans are trying to maintain the rule of the law a priori so that all subsequent elections will not be subject to the legal anarchy we have today. Repubs did not start this fight but we will finish it... 1. Dems launched the pre-emptive strike into flor-duh with bogus butterfly ballot nonsense. 2. Trial lawyers, looking on in horror at the evaporation of their gravy train, piled on at 0400 on the morning after election day. 3. Jessee Jackson mouthed in with blacks who were kept away from the polls by dogs. If he really had a problem, he would have called in OJ to do the heavy lifting... 4. Psychic hotline launched telepathic ballot counters who could devine the will of all voters who really wanted to vote for Gore, but were paralyzed at the thought of doing so... 5. Bugsy Daley orchestrated the whole thing like Toscanini...he learned well at his father's knee...deny the military vote...count only heavily demo counties...whip up the public with sympathetic media...etc, etc. Repubs are fighting a rear-guard action. They are reactive in trying to keep a lid on the process so it doesn't turn into nuclear war... Dems don't give a rat's a$$ about the future...like all teenagers, they want instant satisfaction...Boies' last act to end this birth of freedom and the rule of law was a partial birth abortion administered by the junior members of the Flor-duh Supremes...Fortunately, the skull was not crush and the brains not sucked out...this healthy baby will survive.... I am always amazed at people who are so intellectually honest at most everything they do, yet treat politics as some black hole where reasoning is not to be found. My sister, the PhD lifetime academician is like that. Another academician like that is a man I greatly respect...Dr. Irwin Jacobs...what an intellect, a truly brilliant man...when it comes to business and technology... Oh well, such is life...God never promised us a rose garden... This about sums it up...sorry to interrupt the reverie of the Range...jj mueller.d2g.com