Here, we agree. Well, back to OM... :)
Larry
Pschings@xxxxxxx wrote:
> In a message dated 3/19/2003 12:01:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> halpert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>
>> Still more people, and the Florida "recounts" still didn't address
>> the
>> many incorrectly placed votes, many going to Buchanan from those
>> that
>> would never vote for him. This mechanical aspect was smoothly &
>> politically put aside.
>
> I agree there were a lot of "mechanical" problems with the voting in
> Florida. Unfortunately, after the fact there really isn't much you can
> do about that, is there? How do you determine a voter's intent? The
> Dems couldn't complain much more about the "butterfly" ballot because
> it was designed and approved by a Democratically controlled local
> election board. We'll probably never know the true count of who voted
> in Florida on that day, other than to know it was incredibly close.
> Recounting only certain counties would have been grossly unfair, and
> recounting the entire state couldn't have been done by the
> Constitutionally mandated December 12th (or is it 13th?) date for the
> Electoral College to cast their votes.
>
> It really was a debacle down there. And would still be remembered that
> way if Gore had been the victor. Hopefully something like that will
> never happen again. Well, I might hope it would, were I a lawyer!
>
> Regards, and see you on the list!
>
> Paul
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