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...President. (Extrapolating from some surveys I've done, I calculate that there are now approximately 23 people in the U.S. who genuinely believe the Justices would have made the same decision had it been Al Gore who held a slim lead and was desperately trying to prevent a hand recount. That figure includes non-English speakers...
...GORE Forget the recount. With unemployment at 3.9%, it shouldn't have been close. Be glad Dems don't have war-crimes trials
...Where was James Baker headed when he received the call asking him to go to Florida to supervise the recount...
...scanned form is too faint. Manual counting in precincts that use machine voting thus increases the number of votes tabulated for both parties. Machines do not favor one candidate or the other, and the percentage of votes obtained by each party usually remains the same after a fair manual recount--unless extra ballots turn up. A manual recount using different standards to decide voter intention can be exceedingly unfair. We should avoid manual recounts or insist that they have uniform standards in all precincts. JOHN S. NISBET State College...
...Florida, only ballots that were not punched at all, nicked or partly punched should have been set aside [ELECTION 2000, Dec. 4]. Then those ballots should have been evaluated and recounted by hand and the total of valid votes added to the original machine count. This process should not take more than 48 hours. (It would take less than 24 hours in Canada!) Anyone objecting to it and finding legal reasons for multiple delays and a total recount is a partisan who has a vested interest in the result. If there is serious concern that the machine counts could...