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

To: AmericanVoter who wrote (9378)	1/17/2001 2:35:01 PM
From: mst2000	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

You guys slay me. Bush "wins" Florida by 537 votes (officially) and you contend that it is tantamount to a mortal sin to even look at the undervote ballots to see if they reflect legitimate votes (to the point of going to the USSC to prevent a fair recount), or for anybody to so much as argue that Bush lost based on what a manual review of undervotes in Florida would have revealed . . . . but you have absolutely no problem saying that a 500,000 vote national victory margin means nothing because of some anecdotal examples of how votes may not have been properly counted somewhere, and then argue that it was all a big tie. It wasn't a tie - Gore won by 500,000 votes. Undervotes nationally are highly likely (statistically) to follow the percentages of counted votes in the counties where they are found -- and since the undervote nationally was much higher in minority areas that supported Gore by margins of 9 to 1, chances are that counting the national undervote would increase Gore's 500,000 vote margin, not decrease it. And for every anecdote about a democratic vote paid for with a cigarette or made by a convicted felon, I will give you a documented story about thousands of black voters denied the right to vote in Florida and elsewhere because a GOP affiliated vendors hired by GOP governors to "clean up" the registration roles deleted them as felons when in fact they weren't. The number of voters in Florida who were denied the right to vote on that basis is now several multiples of Bush's "margin of victory" in Florida, from what I've read. Bush lost the national vote. He won at the USSC, 5-4, the only vote that ultimately counted. End of story.