Just finished watching the news conference on CNN. It is working out exactly as I expected.
Gore has many more votes in Palm Beach County than Bush, based upon the machine recount - it is mainly a Democratic county. As you would expect, the manual recount has therefore found more additional votes for Gore than for Bush. They tested 1% of the county manually, and now conclude they may be able to pick up 1,900 to 3,500 votes for Gore!
Think about it. If they did a manual recount in a mainly Republican county, the results would be the exact opposite ... they would conclude that a full, manual recount would result in more votes for Bush than Gore. This is certainly and simply clever ballot theft.
The canvasing board voted 2 to 1 to proceed to a full, manual recount of Palm Beach County - the judge on the board wanted to get guidance from the state elections commission before proceeding. He lost that vote, although he will still be seeking such an opinion. The board will meet again on Monday, at 10:00am.
Note, there is a federal hearing Monday at 9:30am to address the matter of an injunction against this process - that is, an injunction against the full manual recount.
Friends, if the Democrats are able to proceed with this BS, Gore will almost surely be the President. The most basic statistical theory will support that perspective. The only fair way to proceed is to actually require a manual recount of every dam* vote in FL. The Democrats will insist on only recounting mainly Democratic counties. They may be lying scumbags, but they are not stupid.
If our system goes along with this, Al Gore will have so obviously stolen the Presidency, I sincerely wonder how we can avoid tearing this country apart.
Dam* Al Gore and his liberal, dishonest scum.
I wonder if anyone in the military is beginning to wonder how this may affect the chain of command ...
Regards from AZ
[This message has been edited by Jeff Thomas (edited November 12, 2000).]