[John D Harris]

Originally posted by Ronn_Bman: Eisen, Your original post was long, but I read it completely. I didn't quote it all or respond to it all. I chose to address what I wanted of the argument. I purposely ignored the parts of your argument I thought were misinformed, redundant, or unimportant, so you didn't have to post them again, but thanks for the effort. Maybe you didn't follow the election on a daily basis like I did in 2000, and you're basing what happened then on what you read about those events after the fact, but I'm here to tell you Gore didn't argue for the inclusion of absentee ballets until it became clear that it was hurting his effort to have any votes recounted. The public wasn't buying his act, so he changed his story, but still tried to exclude a large number for not having the proper postmark, when under Federal Law absentee ballets from military service members DO NOT require a postmark. After the fact analysis is often quite informative, but I always take it with a grain of salt. I can tell you what I heard and saw Al Gore saying during that time. He did not want any votes re-counted outside Democratic counties until it became apparent it was the only way he might get any re-counted, and by then, it was too late. Maybe you don't like Republicans or Democrats as you said, but you certainly go with the heavily Democrat point of view. Nothing wrong with the Democrate POV about election 2000 as long as it doesn't go to the conspiracy level. If the US Supreme Court had upheld the Florida Supreme Courts ruling, and the re-count actually proved Gore the winner (doubtful), would you be arguing against the Democratic corruption involved in the process? Or is it just that you can't like the winner of any US election because, in order to win, they must be corrupt? EDIT FOR SMILIES AND OMITTED SENTANCE [img]smile.gif[/img]

Correct Ronn, In Okaloosa County, Where I grew up, there where 400+ absentee ballots not counted! Oh by the way Okaloosa is heavy (4 to 1) Republican, In Escambia, Santa Rosa, Walton, and Bay counties the same thing. Escambia county had 1000's of absentee ballots not counted. In all those counties the Dems lawyers FOUGHT to stop the counting of those ballots, even after Gore and his boys came out and said we must count every vote. The fact is No reliable, non agenda pushing orginization (sp?) that went in afterwards and counted the votes has come up with the conclusion that Gore won. No major U.S., Democrat leaning newspaper, that counted the votes afterwards has come up with any thing other then Bush won.