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

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (8819)	12/13/2000 3:39:04 PM
From: Math Junkie	Respond to of 10042

Re: "To restate what should now be obvious: When the voting in an American presidential election is this close, the loser should graciously concede for the good of the political system created by our Founders. Whatever the arguments of Mr. Gore's lawyers on behalf of fairness the past month, his purpose clearly was to force a recount in one or another Florida county that would make his number larger than Governor Bush's." I have to strenuously disagree with the premise of that article. If the election had not been contested, it would have amounted to sweeping all our dirty little secrets under the rug, never to be dealt with. As it has turned out, we have a Supreme Court ruling that hand counting must be done with a uniform standard, and we have the best chance in many years of mustering the political will to fund direly needed improvements in our voting equipment. The partisan motivations of the participants do not alter those facts.