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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (129419)	12/10/2000 11:46:28 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570268

Jim, These ballots have never been counted? Do you mean machine counted, once, twice or held up to the light or what? Seems they have been counted...by the least biased method. Florida law says hand counts are more accurate. Scumbria

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (129419)	12/10/2000 12:17:54 PM
From: milo_morai	Respond to of 1570268

Jim you forgot to mention that the instructions on voting day said to remove all chads from ballot to insure that your vote would count as legally cast. If you can't follow directions your vote shouldn't count. This is about winning in Gore's mind, this crap about lets count every vote is a crock of $Hit. M.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (129419)	12/10/2000 12:45:29 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570268

Seems they have been counted... Rejected by machines attempting to count does not equal counting. ...by the least biased method. Machines are not biased by ideology, but are biased still by design faults. I suspect that, by design, these machines look for light to pass through a missing chad and energize a photodiode. When a chad is attached somehow, but not missing completely, the machine does not register sufficient levels of light, calling an undervote. As for dimpled chads, despite all the rhetoric, the standard used, whatever it may be, is equally applied to the analysis of ballots that could have been cast for either candidate. If Bush believes that has won the popular vote in the state, why is he so afraid of learning how many such ballots are in the total number of undervotes. If the entire state is undervote-counted, the ratio should hold, and he should come out the winner anyway. (Rhetorical question). And how will Bush deal with the matter when/if it is learned that he had actually lost Florida? Both Bush and the Supreme(ly politicised) Courts will have to deal with deafening calls of illegitimacy. Why not put that to rest now? My $.02 Al