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To: michael97123 who wrote (181942)	2/16/2006 12:33:02 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Michael, re: "Mike C. is right that you didnt address the point he makes here. I for one would like you to do that. Its very easy for the left to claim that gore really won fla and thus the election. But did he really win florida and is mike C. right?" Why should I have felt obligated to address that point? He had to stretch so far to change the subject that he must have strained a brain cell. But since you asked. It's an old, much discussed issue. Each side used whatever means they could to challenge adverse votes in an election that was decided by a handful of votes. The Gore camp had some arguable technical issues concerning some of the military votes and they raised them. The Bush camp had arguable technical issues concerning other votes and they raised those. In a perfect world every vote would have been counted and the decisions regarding which votes were to be counted would have been impartially decided but the Florida election wasn't that kind of election. Is there less "honor" in challenging a vote cast by a military member than in challenging a vote cast by a construction worker or a welfare recipient? I don't think so. Under our system every vote is entitled to equal respect. We don't count military votes twice and welfare votes once, and we shouldn't. My bottom line is that Bush won the election. If we don't like how he won then we should change the laws to alter the mechanisms that he used to win. We can try to assure that better voting machines with some kind of a written trail are used, that we have a better system of assuring that contested elections are decided by impartial and competent election officials and we can enact better laws and procedures to guarantee that every voter has an equal and fair chance to cast a ballot. And we ought to do those things because anyone who believes we should trust in the "honor" of the candidates of either party is a fool. Ed