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There is no doubt
Gore won Florida, the Electoral College, the Popular vote and
the Presidency. Florida's
19,000 disqualified votes were for Gore. None were for Bush.
Most of the nation was watching when Gore was projected the winner
in Florida about 7:30 PM Eastern Time. This projection held for
four hours, during which time exit poll vote totals were matching
precinct vote totals. Bush was dining out with his dad, Barbara,
and other members of his family, when he looked up at the TV
and saw Gore was the winner in Florida. He left the table without
finishing dinner, returning to the governors mansion. He met
with TV news people shortly thereafter and said, "the people
counting the ballots in Florida have a different story"
About 11:30 the numbers changed and the networks withdrew their
Gore projection, the only explanation being "something about
irregularities and missing ballots." This gave viewers throughout
the nation the feeling the election in Florida was rigged. If
a person was going to try to rig the election, an easy way would
be to electronically transfer Gore votes to Nader or to Bush.On
election night Nader was not on the radar screen in Florida in
the first four hours but somehow ended up with 2% more than
97,000 votes. This kind of electronic fix would require changing
only one line of programming code and would not show up in a
machine recount. There is a good chance this kind of fix would
be found in a manual recount, putting the transferred votes back
in the Gore column. Such a discovery would also constitute proof
of election fraud, a felony in Florida. I believe these are the
reasons Bush is willing to go to court to prevent a manual recount
and why it is so important to conduct a manual recount. The "irregularities"
(people standing in line 3 hours to vote, people told "there
are no more ballots", use of the illegal "butterfly
ballots", refusing to supply a new ballot to people who
requested one, disqualifying large numbers of Gore votes and
not disqualifying Bush votes, ) did not happen anywhere else
in the nation. Gore won Florida fair and square. Bush needs to
resign. The Republicans won the house and Senate but they did
not win the presidency.
In the 1940s
and 50's, before the advent of computers, all election ballots
were counted manually.
A republican and a democrat would observe and confirm each vote,
until all the votes were counted and a winner declared. The Florida
Law requiring a certified vote count within 7 days of the election
assumes an uncontested election. In America, if an election is
contested, the votes are counted, by hand if necessary, with
a republican and a democrat confirming each vote, until all the
votes are counted and a winner declared.
No court should have entertained
George W. Bush's suit to stop manual recounting of the ballots.
Neither the republican or the democrat precinct workers had any
difficulty telling who the vote was for in the manual recounts.
If they were uncertain who the vote was for, they did not not
count the ballot. The courts should have refused to hear the
Bush case. Would they have heard the case if Gore made such a
claim?
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The republican appointees
to the supreme court voted to stop the recounts when it was clear
Gore would be the winner. Their action constitutes a "Coup",
depriving us of a duly elected, lawful President, Al Gore,
and installing in his place the loser, George W. Bush. The courts
decision to intervene in the election is as unlawful as it is
Un-American. Never in American history has any court announced
a "probability of victory" for a plaintiff before hearing
the case. Antonin Scalia should have excused himself from
the case for making this statement and should resign from the
court. All five Supreme Court Justices voting to stop the
recounts should resign. There is no excuse for their hearing
the case or for the bias they displayed in their actions and
decisions. Lower court Justices voting to hear the Bush case
should resign. The Justice department should investigate fraud
in the Florida election and the Bush families' involvement in
it. Did 19000 people in Palm County really vote for two people?
Or did republican operatives in Palm County punch Buchanans name
on Gore ballots in order to invalidate the ballot, much the same
way they were invited to fill in missing information
on absentee ballots in two other Florida counties? Did Florida
state police interfere with people on their way to the polls
in black precincts? Were voters told there were "no more
ballots"? Were voters turned away after waiting in line
for hours because the "polls had closed"? Were registered
voters turned away when their names were not on polling rosters?
Again, these problems only occurred in Jeb Bush's state.
If a governor
from Texas can rig the outcome of Florida's Presidential Election
with his brothers help and the courts approval, he will have
no difficulty rigging future state and national computerized
elections. If Bush
were an honest man he would have joined Al Gore in calling for
a manual recount of the Florida votes before accepting the Presidency.
The supreme court should reverse its decision and order all the
votes counted. If the Court has the right to reverse a far more
learned Supreme Courts decision protecting a woman's right to
choose, it most certainly has the right and duty to overturn
it own erroneous recount decision. The Supreme Court needs to
reverse its order and compel hand counting of the ballots regardless
of the time it takes or the outcome. This will allow the ultimate
winner to take his rightful place as President, thus returning
us to a Democracy. We officially became a dictatorship when George
W. Bush took the oath of office from Nixon appointee Rhenquist.
In the future all elections should be determined by hand counting
of the ballots in exactly the way it was done prior to the introduction
of the computer. We should never again allow computerized elections.
Any programmer,
for any reason, can write a line of code that will alter the
result of the election.
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