>> In this country, while most people strive to be the best they can be, people are also free to be idiots.
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>Mark;
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>That is the beauty of the American system. Anyone who is a citizen can vote - including the idiots. Sometimes they even count the ballots - well that is true if the election is not too close.
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>Tom

And how many people saw or heard earlier this week that the recount of the 10,000+ ballots [the ones rejected by the counting machines] in Miami Dade resulted in a net 6 vote gain for Bush?!?!