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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (122547)	1/18/2001 2:04:55 PM
From: willcousa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

There will be other hand recounts in other key counties and the result will be the same. In terms of the future - I think Florida has a lot of work to do to get it right. Since the offending counties are run by Democrats I doubt that they will bother.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (122547)	1/18/2001 2:15:50 PM
From: H-Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I wouldn't make any assumptions or predictions based on the statistics. Miami Dade was supposed to yield 600 votes for Gore. It netted between 6 and 100 for Bush, depending on how you count them. If you consider that all of the heavily democratic counties have been counted, If you let Broward county recount stand , What remains is mostly republican. Following the logic path of the statistics argument leads to the conclusion that it would net votes for Bush. Before the Miami Dade re-count result was known, I had stood behind that statistics assumption, but since the Miami-Dade recount is exactly opposite of what was expected and predicted by statistics, well who the hell knows. H The fairness and accuracy of the Broward count has been called into question by the Miami Herald. This lends credence to the Bush stance on the manual recounts. It also dramatizes your point of how can we run an election when we cant trust those counting the votes, imo.