Abso-bloody-lutely. While I think the Gore camp should not challenge the
outcome in court, I do think that the Bush camp should have the decency to
wait until every vote is counted. Especially since there are something
like 5000 absentee ballots to go, at least there were the last time I
checked CNN.com. The simple fact of the matter is that the election is
too close to call until it really is *over,* according to the law's
definition of "over" and not the AP news service and certainly not
according to GW Bush. The rhetoric coming from the Bush camp today is
even less mature than the alleged whining of the democrats. I wonder
where in the Constitution it says that candidates have the right to
declare victory before the result is known? Why is it that the party
that claims to champion procedure isn't willing to wait for the procedure
to be done?
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If the Bush camp truly believes that most of the Florida absentee ballots are
> from overseas military personnel, I am baffled at the call to essentially
> ignore these votes by calling the election now.
>
> I can see that, normally, absentee ballots don't tip the balance -- if one
> candidate is ahead by 50 million votes and there are 1 million absentee
> ballots, results can be projected before they are counted.
>
> But these votes are not irrelevant to the final outcome. With a margin of
> somewhere over 300 votes in Florida, the absentee ballots could very well tip
> the scales one way or another.
>
> These are people who are living far from home and facing the very real
> possibility of being killed in a war to defend our Constitution and our
> rights, including our right to vote. Insisting that this very close election
> be conceded before their votes even arrive in the US is a slap in the face to
> men and women in uniform. If anyone deserves to have their vote counted
> before this election is conceded, they do.
>
> Every vote counts. Count every vote.
>
> Patrick Sweeney
>
Marvin Long
Austin, Texas
