On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:56:37 -0500, "Nathan Newman" forwarded: > >Worth checking out http://www.gorewonflorida.org actually, it is a democrat website (redirected from the url provided above), http://democrats.com/display.cfm?id=181, loosely based on the information provided at http://orlandosentinel.com/news/orl-recount.storygallery?coll=orl%2Dnews%2Dheadlines (and similar sites by sponsoring media). nice piece of work. however, an intelligent observer would note the differences between the numbers provided by the democrat website and those covered by the article in today's miami herald. only miami-dade and palm beach counties were actually challenged by the gore campaign (of the counties covered by the democrat website), and the miami herald reports only a 49 gore vote gain -- not the +1017 proposed by the democrats. moreover, democrats have every reason to "count" the most dubious of votes, and are not exactly helped by an independent review. neither of these reviews similated a recount environment, where partisans have the right to challenge suspicious votes among a three member election board. nor are the people who are reviewing these votes even vaguely familiar with the laws that regard the counting of votes *and* the court-approved means of challenging them. finally, and most importantly, the gore campaign only asked for recounts in four counties and -- as the miami herald article notes -- al gore would have still not have sufficient votes in order to wrestle the florida election from president bush. only the most ignorant of campaign workers would argue that gore did *not* turn out more voters in florida on november 6, 2000, but that does *not* mean gore "won." the greater propensity of democratic voters to spoil their ballots has been long known, and democratic candidates and campaign people *know* that they must educate their voters in order to reduce voter-induced spoilage. > And by the narrower standard of where the vote was "perfectly > clear", Gore still won by 1017 votes. perfectly clear to democrats! ac ------------------------------------------------------------ FREE EMAIL from AUSI at http://ausi.com