>Hi Dragan,
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>>There's an old recipe: "we may lose the ballots, but we win the counting". And I'm not quite sure it didn't happen already.
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>I read your post to say "we may lose the ballots, but we win the country". so I replied "I hope so." To reply to what you actual posted, I would say the American people lost "Ohio", but it was not in the counting, it was in the dirty tricks in Districts heavily populated with Democrats, where the Democratic voters were made to stand endlessly in lines; because, there were far to few voting machine, and because Democratic voters were challenge as to whether they were valid voters and made to product drivers licenses with photos of themselves. This allowed JWB to win a little over 50% of the popular vote, and enough electoral votes to win the Presidency. It is wrong that some voters were made to feel threatened and like criminals when they exercise their right to vote.

I had a link to the article where one certified hacker has shown how the software used to count was written in Access, had no security whatsoever, and a baby could break it with a rattle. And this was known well before the elections.

Plus the stuff you mention - not to forget 180000 disenfranchised black voters in Florida 2000, out of which only a miserable percentage got their voting rights back for the next round. I sense a combination of tactics, where the cost of proving would be enormous; that's a way to get away with it.

I've seen less subtle tricks in Milosevic's time, and the people were tolerating them for a while. Once the sufficient percentage of people were pis*ed off with all that, we got elections which were heavily controlled by all parties, foreign delegates and a number of NGOs.

>Anyway, the election was close, but President Bush is President.

As long as people believe that, he is.