>>>It will be interesting to see if the Democratic nominee will once again receive the majority of the popular votes and in order to get President Bush reelected, he will go to the Supreme Court once again to steal the election... I know that many Republicans despise the means by which he took office too. No one complains though, wonder why?
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>>Has anyone actually read through the summary conclusion by a number of media organizations who conducted a complete recount to determine every possible conclusion from the Florida vote of 2000? According to the study Bush wins in each recount with one exception (ballots where the counter must interpret the 'voter intent' via dimples).
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>Not exactly true. According to the your link, it was not dimples only, but overvotes where Gore would have won 7000 in one county and 8000 in another country. However, I cannot see how those votes could be counted because if two candidates are marked, you cannot determine voter intent.
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>> The Supreme Court sped up the result but they were correct nonetheless.
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>>Gore won the popular vote, Bush won the electoral collage. The US elects the president via electoral votes.
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>I believe electoral votes is not an accurate way of reflecting our country's choice and it should be changed to the popular vote myself.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A12623-2001Nov11¬Found=trueTracy;
According to law when the Electoral College meets (the Monday following the second Wednesday of December as established by federal law) the vote’s cast by the electoral college do not have to reflect the majority decision of a state's voters. That is to say a member of the electoral college may vote for whom ever they please and is not bound to do otherwise.
A bit about the electoral college:
http://www.fec.gov/pdf/eleccoll.pdf It was a good system when we had 13 states! :)
Tom
