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To: TimF who wrote (129775)	12/15/2000 6:09:06 PM
From: TGPTNDR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570452

Tim, Re: <I would have supported a statewide recount with no dimpled chads counted that started as soon as posible after the election, but neither side would have supported that idea.> Interesting, Tim, but you have to admit that ALGORE supported the full recount THE day after it became illegal. How can you offer an illegal process? Shouldn't the very offer be illegal? Kind of like the FBI selling DOPE to you in your house -- then confiscating your house?(Whoops -- that's not illegal. Your house is gone.) Intrestingly, the story now is that his advisors asked him to request the recount while it was still legal -- and he rejected that approach. See the New York Times of today. tgptndr tgptndr

To: TimF who wrote (129775)	12/16/2000 3:05:55 PM
From: Steve Porter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570452

Tim: <OFF TOPIC> Depends on what you mean by counted. They where run through the counting machines twice. They didn't register but is that the fault of the machine, the ballot, or the voter not correctly voting. Here's where I drew the line on the whole thing. I'm a believer in survival of the fitest.. and therefore if a person is either too lazy, or physically incapable of properly voting, I don't believe they should be allowed to vote. (or more accurately, no additional effort should go into the count of their vote) We are (society in general) raising generation after generation of 'weaker' human beings. Nowhere else in nature does this happen, but with humans, and it will be the undoing of mankind. I mean do we REALLY need warning labels on dry cleaning bags?. Safety lighters... etc., etc. And have you noticed that perpuating the lives of the weak we are leading the world into a nasty over population issue. I know this is off topic, but after picking through 3 warning labels today, seeing countless 'caution static kills computer part labels' and 3 weeks of listening to lawyers on TV 'reading the rulings so the general populous can understand them' when I already understand it based on the original text, I've had enough. I'm currently running my own company, and NO ONE is looking out for us (we are still early stage). What a funny world. Steve PS. I'm not saying we allow people to die needlessly, but if people are too stupid and kill themselves, that's their problem.