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With as many as 10,000 ballots in Palm Beach County read by computers as having no presidential vote, Florida election officials made the right decision yesterday in ordering a hand recount of votes in the county. The Bush camp protested the decision on grounds that hand counts will be influenced by political interests and will be inaccurate. But where's the accuracy and fairness in blatantly ignoring the will of 10,000 voters...
...hand count could swing the final vote in favor of Vice President Al Gore '69. But Texas Gov. George W. Bush cannot try to block the hand recount and expect to emerge from this campaign as a man of integrity--whether or not he becomes our next president. As much as the arguments for advocating or dismissing the hand count are colored by partisan interests, the fair administration of elections is not a partisan issue...
...Bush's counsel are worried about the specific counties in which Gore has asked for a recount...
Republican lawyers will ask Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks to issue an injunction barring a hand recount of every ballot cast in Palm Beach County, on the basis that such recounts are significantly prone to error, and that Bush and his running mate, Dick Cheney, would be deprived of their constitutional rights...
...want to say it's a right wing conspiracy but it makes you wonder," she said. "I don't see the big deal [about a hand recount] if Bush is so sure of his victory...