From: Grlygrl201@aol.com
Date: Sat Nov 11 2000 - 11:06:01 PPET
"There were also 257 missing ballots that were finally found and several
hundred damaged ballots that had to be counted by hand."
if NM allowed a hand count how can bush object to one in florida? should the
several hundred counted in NM, which gave bush an 11-point lead, now be
discounted? bush's camp says hand-counting is subject to "mischief" and that
damaged ballots are just allowable casualties of the system. too bad the
hand count already occurred in NM *without anyone's permission* and too bad
the GOP already filed a federal injunction in florida to halt one. can't
have it both ways, signor bush.
we could have the results in florida in a week, including the hand count and
absentee overseas ballots. just remember whose party really will be
responsible when this process drags out.
geege
(btw, wondering if 5,000 votes are less than half a percent of the votes cast
in NM as the 1,700 or so were in florida. or if NM has a legal automatic
recount based on anything other than % of difference, like the so-called
abnormalities that triggered theirs. if not, why was there a recount?
someone had to make a determination. and if gore spikes led them *indirectly*
to recount by hand, why shouldn't buchanan spikes lead us to the same?)
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