"The study found that Florida's uncounted optical scan ballots
included as many as 3,527 such potentially valid votes. If those votes
had been counted, Gore would have gained 2,206 votes and Bush 1,321--a
swing of 885 votes for Gore."

Duh, they wern't counted because they didn't count.
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"The study found that Florida's uncounted optical scan ballots
included as many as 3,527 such potentially valid votes. If those votes
had been counted, Gore would have gained 2,206 votes and Bush 1,321--a
swing of 885 votes for Gore."

SAIL LOCO wrote:
Duh, they wern't counted because they didn't count.

Really? Maybe your vote shouldn't count.

It's really kind of funny to see how history has been rewritten in the
aftermath of the 2000 election. What if the Republican had not thrown away
all the absentee ballots sent by registered Democrats? What if Gov. Bush
had not ordered the Florida hiway patrol & state police to turn away
minority voters by the thousand? What if the Supreme Court had not ordered
the recount stopped?

If the same things had happened in another country, the same people who
are smugly insisting that Bush won fair and square would instead be
howling and pointing at how poorly them furriners understand democracy.

Basically, what happened was that the Republican party pulled out all
stops before and after the election to have George Bush Jr installed.

monty python voice on
And there was much rejoicing (by CEOs, oil companies, and defense
contractors).
monty python voice off

DSK

Basically, what happened was that the Republican party pulled out all
stops before and after the election to have George Bush Jr installed.

They pulled out all the ilegal stops.

RB

What if Gov. Bush
had not ordered the Florida hiway patrol & state police to turn away
minority voters by the thousand?

Unregistered voters.
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Both actually.

"SAIL LOCO" wrote in message
...
What if Gov. Bush
had not ordered the Florida hiway patrol & state police to turn away
minority voters by the thousand?

Unregistered voters.
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What if Gov. Bush
had not ordered the Florida hiway patrol & state police to turn away
minority voters by the thousand?


SAIL LOCO wrote:
Unregistered voters.

If they were turned away at the door, then how does anybody know if they
were registered or not?

Fact- In heavily Democratic districts, polls opened late & closed early.

Fact- The registrars were instructed to remove from the rolls anybody
who had the same last name as a convicted felon in Texas (this alone
dumped at least 5,000 registered voters). Nice coincidence.

Fact- In several counties, Republican volunteers sorted through all
absentee ballots and systematically purged regstered Democrats. They
claimed this was 'fair' because the Dems 'had the chance to stop them
but didn't.'

In short, there were several cases of just plain fraud, big time, which
handed the Republicans anywhere between 5,000 and 15,000 extra votes.
This makes the whole recount fiasco a joke... although it was still
extremely close.

That's why all the exit polls showed Gore winning by a comfortable
margin... people told the pollsters who they voted for, only to have
their vote not count or not be allowed to vote. Then there was another
large number (who got all the publicity) who _thought_ they voted for
Gore but actually voted for Buchanan or some such.

It really surprises me that this didn't get more play in the news then.
I guess it's just another example of the 'liberal biased media' which
continues to give President Bush such a huge boost and so many free
passes.

DSK

Too bad they didn't let Castro have his people monitor the
election. He offered.

"DSK" wrote in message
...
"The study found that Florida's uncounted optical scan ballots
included as many as 3,527 such potentially valid votes. If those votes
had been counted, Gore would have gained 2,206 votes and Bush 1,321--a
swing of 885 votes for Gore."

SAIL LOCO wrote:
Duh, they wern't counted because they didn't count.

Really? Maybe your vote shouldn't count.

It's really kind of funny to see how history has been rewritten in the
aftermath of the 2000 election. What if the Republican had not thrown away
all the absentee ballots sent by registered Democrats? What if Gov. Bush
had not ordered the Florida hiway patrol & state police to turn away
minority voters by the thousand? What if the Supreme Court had not ordered
the recount stopped?

If the same things had happened in another country, the same people who
are smugly insisting that Bush won fair and square would instead be
howling and pointing at how poorly them furriners understand democracy.

Basically, what happened was that the Republican party pulled out all
stops before and after the election to have George Bush Jr installed.

monty python voice on
And there was much rejoicing (by CEOs, oil companies, and defense
contractors).
monty python voice off

DSK