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

To: Dan B. who wrote (8627)	12/9/2000 6:00:43 PM
From: Math Junkie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

I try to see both sides of the argument, but that doesn't mean that I always take the middle road just for the sake of being in the middle. I assure you that some of my opinions are far from moderate! As for what Bush has done to "equal" what Gore has done, I would say that the Bush Campaign has a good point about the lack of uniform standards, but some of their rhetoric has qualified as the same kind of half truths that Gore is using. For example, they have talked about manual recounts as if they were some kind of Al Gore invention, when they are specified in Florida law as a remedy, and in fact are used all over the nation. They have referred to them as necessarily flawed, when vote counting machine manufacturers say that the results need to be obtained by hand in very close elections. They have claimed over and over that the votes have been counted three times, when in fact the third recount has never been completed. The fair way to do it would have been to do the manual recount statewide, using a statewide standard as to what to count. If both campaigns had agreed to this, the Florida Supreme Court could easily have ordered it, as demonstrated by the sweeping nature of what they ordered yesterday. But neither campaign even proposed it, which demonstrates that neither is primarily interested in fairness.