>No, Tamar's analogy is much closer.
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>Dems had the legal right to ask for a manual recount. They also have the legal right to contest the certification. It is called due process. The Republicans wanted to cut the process short because they were ahead and there was no benefit to them to have the votes being recounted. Of course, there was no guarantee that Gore would pick up enough votes in the recount but why take that chance, especially since the recounts were being done in strongly Democratic counties.
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>The Dems are doing everything to squeak out more votes for them (not necessarily manufacture votes but looking in only certain places). The Repubs are doing everything possible to stop the process before it has run its course...and are definitly not interested in whether they got more votes or not. Only that they have more votes right now.
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>And anyone who continues to repeat that inane Baker phrase: "there was a count, there was a recount of the count, there was a recount of the recount..." should be taken behind the woodshed.

Excellent point.

Is there any way you can ask some people in San Salvador to run the next election in Florida <g>?