>>>I don't think people are upset about the recount. It's that third recount and then the handcount, and the denial of military ballots that is upsetting. It smacks of third world country election engineering.<<
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>Not only that - It is this whole spin about "Every vote should count".
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>There are no “uncounted votes” in Florida.
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>See this link:
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>http://pbcelections.org/Sample%20Ballots/instruct.jpg
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>Note the instructions: “If you make a make a mistake return your ballot card and obtain another.”
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>The press fails to point out that most of the “Thousands” of ballots that were thrown out were ballots that had been returned and replaced by another after a known mistake had been made. How many of these ended back in the actually cast ballots stack?


And I'm also told that the Dade county ballots would most likely yield more votes for Bush. True the early totals were going Gore's way, but they had selected the known Gore precincts to start with. They still had the heavy Republican and Cuban-American precincts (remember Elian) to count. Gore knows he really doesn't want that hand count. We just need to move on and get W in the W House.