Hi Deb,
I'm not trying to be argumenative, but I'm still confused. You seem to have
a handle on this so, let's go through this. You said,
[[No, it's the second count. There was no hand count "going on for days."
The
first hand count in Palm Beach County was yesterday.]]
Wait a minute. If the first count was by machine, then what you called
"yesterday's" count (completed on Saturday?) would have been the Second
count, or the 1st hand count. Or am I missing something?
Then you said,
[The machine recount,
undertaken in all counties, was automatic. Florida law requires an
automatic
recount if a candidate was defeated or eliminated by one-half of a percent
or less.]
So, are you saying that there was an "automatic recount", by machine, in
Palm County, in addition to the 2 counts already discussed in this post? So
we have had 3 counts already??
Then you said,
[ The partial hand recount in Palm Beach County was requested by the
Gore campaign based on evidence that the machines were failing to read
imperfectly punched ballots.]
I'm genuinely confused by your observations, not argumenative. It seems
like each news outlet is reporting different things, each of them
irresponsibly incomplete. I've been reading CNN's web site and watching ABC
News. What are your sources?
CNN says that the Palm Beach County's voting bosses just decided (Sunday) to
re-count by hand. Is this in addition to what you called "yesterday's"
count? If so, we have had
1. The original machine count.
2. What you called Saturday's "1st hand count", (which was only a partial
re-count? I could have sworn that this was started on Friday. Why didn't
CNN mention that it was 'partial'? How do you count 'part' of a county?
Just the double-marked ones?)
3. The automatic, state-wide re-count by machine, mandated by a close
election that you mentioned. I hadn't heard about this either.
4. The county's Sunday-announced 2nd hand count, mentioned on the CNN web
site. Did you hear about this?
If they just finished a hand count on Saturday, as you suggest, why did they
decide ON SUNDAY to re-do what they had just completed? This is getting
exponentially wackier by the fricken hour!
Respectfully,
Jim L'Hommedieu
