Re: [EM] Who did you say won?

[Tom McIntyre]

Eric Gorr wrote:

At 6:21 AM +0000 2/24/03, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:

Is that what the mass media said?

I am not aware of any independent study which claims that Gore would have won regardless of what the Supreme Court did.

Here's an article telling how the same study that showed that "The Supreme Court's intervention probably did not affect the outcome of the limited recounts then under way", also showed that "more people probably cast valid votes for Gore than for Bush".  It goes on to say why you didn't hear about that latter part.

http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1115-02.htm

Of course, Gore would have won without recounts had it not been for a deliberate effort by Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, and Republican lawmakers to illegally purge tens of thousands of Democrats from the Florida voting rolls.  A list of Greg Palast articles providing proof of the illegal purging:

http://www.gregpalast.com/columns.cfm?subject_id=1&subject_name=Theft%20of%20Presidency

This one sums it up pretty well:

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=177&row=1

An article that sums up other ways voters were disenfranchised in Florida:

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Political_Corruption/How_GOP_Gamed_Florida.html

And this article hints (but doesn't actually claim) that computerized voting machines programmed with a Republican slant may have been in use in this Florida election:

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm