On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:56:58 -0400, JDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:44 AM 9/10/2004 -0500 Gary Denton wrote: > >On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 01:02:32 -0400, JDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 3) The Head of Elections for Palm Beach County, also a Democrat, who > >> designed the butterfly ballot that arguably may have resulted in a number > >> of intended votes for Al Gore being registered as votes for Pat Buchanan > >> due to voter confusion and incompetence. > > > >Madame Butterfly was a Republican, switched to the Democratic Party to > >help get elected, got pissed off and changed her registration to > >Independent in 2001. > > Still, she was at least nominall a Democrat - which hardly supports the > theory of a Republican conspiracy to, quote, "cheat." > > You also managed to nicely duck the fact that the Top 2 political officials > to influence the outcome of Florida in 2000 were Democrats as well. > JDG
The big cheat was the Florida GOP legislature, governor and state election officer knowingly disenfranchising tens of thousands of elegible predominately Democratic voters. The company that prepared the purge list of voters testified that at every opportunity they were urged to expand their criteria and use partial matches that ended up with more than 10 eligable voters purged for every felon - who are allowed to vote in most states. You now say Democrats should blame the Democrat Al Gore and the Democratic Florida Supreme Court for the loss of the White House for not insisting on a complete Florida recount? (As well as asserting that Madame Butterfly is/was a Democrat?) Yes, the principle should have been to recount all the votes, despite urging that be done Gore allowed the election recount strategies to concentrate on selected counties, partially because of the fear of widespread fraud in the recounts that could not be caught in the many GOP controled counties but would be less likely and more visable in a few recounts. The Florida Supreme Court in the interests of time did not urge a full recount. Both were dead wrong, I notice you do not mention Tom Delay organizing congressional staffers.to lead a riot in the Dade county offices to stop the recount. How does Ms. LePore being a Democrat in name only not support "the theory of a Republican conspiracy to, quote, "cheat.""? I get out of this that you concede Gore really won the popular vote in Florida as well as nationally. Gary Denton -- #2 on google for liberal news "I don't try harder" _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
