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OriginalPosterLost
You misunderstand, I’m not refering to the recount, that is mandatory by state law…
I’m talking about the contraversy in Palm Beach county of which a supposed 19,000 ballots were thrown out because they *supposedly* were confusing (It looks very clear to me)and caused people to mark both Gore and Buchanan on them. (I didn’t think that 19,000 people could be that blind…)
It’s started a huge chain reaction of Gore supporters claiming that they *think* that they may have made a mistake.
Like I said, any one qualified to vote should relize that if you punch multiple candidates for the same office, that ballot will be thrown out. On the same note, if you make a mistake as obvious as this, there are people at the precinct to replace the erronious form. But, once the ballot is placed in the machine it, by law, is final…
Also, Buchanan got a much larger amount of votes in Palm Beach than most other counties in Florida. The Democratic party, in there arrogance, is claiming that there is no way that Buchanan could have received so many votes. However, back in ’96, that same county had a uniquely high amount of votes for Ross Perot. This leads one to believe that there is a strong reform party community there… It’s impossible to tell for sure whether these votes for Buchanan were maid in error or deliberately…
The Democratic party is calling to allow the county to invalidate the votes in that county and allow the residents to vote again. This must not happen because it gives the residents of the county an unfare chance to change there minds… Nader voters, for instance, could change their votes to Gore. The Ballots themselves are anonymous, so its impossible to locate, only, the people who had invalid ballots…
The only way the re-poll would be even remotely fair would be for the entire election, country-wide, to be thrown out and redone. But, that would be catastrophic itself…
The Democratic Party is pissed because they lost and are willing to break the rules to ensure a victory.
The ballots were approved well in advanced, they should have caught any confusing aspects long before the election began.
One vote per person, no more…
On another topic, this lead for Gore in the popular vote is by much less than 1% of the total votes cast. That’s well within expected error… Its probably much closer than it appears…
~Matt, running for emperor in 2004!
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