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To: PartyTime who wrote (109198)	12/10/2000 9:04:33 AM
From: dvdw©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Party Time, perhaps you should ask the writer to think before writing such pap! You are discredited, as just another partisan voice who cant tell the truth.

To: PartyTime who wrote (109198)	12/10/2000 9:06:19 AM
From: sunshadow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"The horror stories about perfectly innocent black voters being turned away from the polls because they had been targeted as convicted felons started coming in early on the morning of Nov. 7, Election Day. And they're still coming in," wrote New York Times columnist Bob Herbert. "Blacks turned out to vote in record numbers in Florida this year, but huge numbers were systematically turned away for one specious reason or another." So far, not a single substantiated case on record anywhere in Florida... Someone earlier had a report that when one of the Florida papers started checking out some of the stories, every single one of them fell apart...

To: PartyTime who wrote (109198)	12/10/2000 10:41:17 AM
From: The Street	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

<<that Katherine Harris' highly partisan, far-reaching and tilting tentacles << More demonizing and hate speech...

To: PartyTime who wrote (109198)	12/10/2000 11:56:01 AM
From: ecommerceman	Respond to of 769670

Party Time--this is the best post I've read on this thread since I came across it several days ago... Real nice thing that Katherine Harris, even-handed that she of course is (forget the little detail about her co-chairing Bush's FL committee, as well as administering the FL state election--any Bushie want to comment on that???), purged 173,000 Floridians from the voter rolls at the direction of a firm with strong Republican ties.... ______________ Message #109199 from PartyTime at Dec 10, 2000 9:01 AM Here's a Sunday morning link for those of you who like to think while at your Sunday best: salon.com If you consider how Republican politicians like to limit those who vote (see above article), why would it be any surprise they'd also wanna limit counting votes? The above referenced article shows that Katherine Harris' highly partisan, far-reaching and tilting tentacles went well beyond imposing unfair deadlines to count votes; providing minimal bi-partisanlike guidance to counties needing it; and using her legal staff to block every effort to count votes which, due to well-known voting machine difficiencies, have never been counted. If Bush gets the presidency in this manner it'll mark another modern day era of an Ugly American President. At a minimum, Bush will go down in history as one who wouldn't allow his opponent a recount in a close election, even though the Florida law provided his opponent was entitled to one. But there's something far more pressing. The long held belief in time and history, and as understood by foreign countries everywhere, is that America votes to elect its president and vice president. What's not understood is that Americans vote with votes that don't count. Bush's willingness to subvert the precious notion that all valid votes should be counted in our national election is far worse than anything Clinton did. Bush, without even yet taking office, has stained America "big-time."

To: PartyTime who wrote (109198)	12/10/2000 7:52:08 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"The above referenced article shows that Katherine Harris' highly partisan, far-reaching and tilting tentacles went well beyond imposing unfair deadlines to count votes; providing minimal bi-partisanlike guidance to counties needing it; and using her legal staff to block every effort to count votes which, due to well-known voting machine difficiencies, have never been counted" What is so hard to understand here? Katherine Harris did not "impose" any deadline. She "enforced" a deadline set in Florida state law long before this election, and a deadline "imposed" by a Democratic Florida Supreme Court! Why is this so difficult to grasp? Derek