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


To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (9143)12/28/2000 9:07:07 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 10042
 
When information travels at "internet speed"
Serge Halimi and L.W.

monde-diplomatique.fr

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These are also errors that cannot be corrected. In a close election, projections made public while voting is still underway can affect the turn-out, and thus the result. In Florida, for instance, the most staunchly Republican counties to the west are in a different time zone from the eastern counties. They were still voting when one television channel, then another, then another, "projected" a Gore victory in the state. A scoop of this sort could have cost Bush thousands of votes.
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