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To: Dan3 who wrote (130873)	1/29/2001 12:47:49 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583821

Gore almost certainly won Florida - and the election - Link The rural counties that heavily favored Bush used paper ballots that required a subjective decision for every mark on every ballot. Despite these counties having had most votes cast for Bush, the majority of ballots rejected as "spoiled", by the Republican dominated vote counters, were votes for Gore. sun-sentinel.com; Dan, I am seeing more and more information like this coming out of FLA, including a US Commission's interview with Ms. Harris where she tried to side step every question put to her. I think when all is said and down, it will become clear that Gore would have been the winner had the vote been counted accurately and fairly. Hopefully, the response will be significant voter reform legislature, and the disposal of Bush in 2004. ted

To: Dan3 who wrote (130873)	1/29/2001 12:14:15 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1583821

Gore almost certainly won Florida - and the election - Link The article you provided a link to does not support that conclusion. From link - It's impossible to know how important the lost votes identified in the review may have been without examining the much larger number of uncounted ballots around the state. A consortium of newspapers, including the Sun-Sentinel, is making preparations to count all of the 180,000 ballots that were rejected across Florida. That effort could take months. Duval County alone has 22,000 punch-card ballots that were thrown out. Those ballots could have had a dramatic effect on the overall totals -- or almost none at all. For example, a count of the 10,600 rejected punch-card ballots in Miami-Dade County by The Palm Beach Post found fewer than 500 discernible votes, with Gore losing a net of six votes, rather than gaining a decisive 600 as his campaign had predicted. That doesn't seem to support your conclusion that "Gore almost certainly won Florida". Even if we assume that all votes cast should go to a candidate if you can figure out their intention even if the vote itself was not cast properly. Tim