Dean,

>Stolen?

>How can anyone still an election? I never understood that argument.

I never said that it was.


>In every election in every state there always is/has been certain percentage of under votes and other "errors" assoicated with an election, even at a local level.
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>If we were going to recountvote why not recount in every state/county/city/district? Why was Florida singled out?

Simply because the race was so close. If it took a recount in every precint across the country, then I would have been for it. In Florida, which was decided by a little more than 500 votes, it was important because the winner of the state would be the next president.

Here're the facts. The winner of the overall popular vote was Al Gore (by +500,000). The winner in Florida was George W. Bush (by 500+). Given this, don't you think that you and I deserve to know who actually won? Right now, neither of us can say with any certitude we do. And that's why I favored a recount, not only in Florida, but any other state where the difference was less than 1%. The Bush people didn't challenge those states where they lost within that margin. Gore's people did, and rightfully so.

>I personally don't care who is in office, although I have a preference. This counrty is design to withstand any idiot who happens to be in office.
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I agree here.