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by Simon_Jester
12/28/01 10:33:17 PM
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New Cute twig

I've seen rightwingers claim that if California both counted the absentee ballots and disallowed votes by non-citizens, Bush would have won there -- whereupon Florida would be irrelevant, eh? I don't know. It seems far fetched; but I've never seen anything resembling an analysis.

No, it's all Florida, and it's all one way; miscellaneous variants on "Aha! I found a way to count the votes so Gore won!"


Grin...don't those two statements contradict each other?

Sidenote: no voting irregularities have been prosecuted either inside or outside of Florida that I am aware of. (Several were reported.) I fully expect voting irregularities across statelines (ie: people who live both in NY and FL - and who voted twice) are not being tracked/prosecuted.
Post #22,675
by Ric Locke
12/29/01 12:08:43 AM
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New And it was a dahling sprig, too
The comment about California occurred once, shortly after the election, in a thread similar to this one on another site.

Various analyses of Bush's illegitimacy based on one or another theory of vote counting are a regular staple of leftish "boards" and leftish participants in all boards. The volume isn't comparable.
Regards,
Ric
     Is it Okay to talk about the Recount yet? - (mmoffitt) - (46) - Dec. 28, 2001, 10:18:46 AM EST
         No. It's over. - (hnick) - (39) - Dec. 28, 2001, 11:17:56 AM EST
             And you should especially avoid that type of analysis - (Ric Locke) - (2) - Dec. 28, 2001, 11:37:55 AM EST
                 Thought I said that... -msg -NT - (hnick) - (1) - Dec. 28, 2001, 11:48:17 AM EST
                     You did. Just weary of circumlocutions. -NT - (Ric Locke) - Dec. 28, 2001, 02:46:23 PM EST
             Some find the suspension of the Republic interesting - (mhuber) - (34) - Dec. 28, 2001, 12:55:59 PM EST
                 Re: Some find the suspension of the Republic interesting - (hnick) - (4) - Dec. 28, 2001, 01:56:16 PM EST
                     The danger is ... - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Dec. 28, 2001, 02:00:07 PM EST
                         Understood and agreed... - (hnick) - Dec. 28, 2001, 02:19:28 PM EST
                     Interesting... - (Simon_Jester) - (1) - Dec. 28, 2001, 02:13:30 PM EST
                         The operative word - (hnick) - Dec. 28, 2001, 02:24:26 PM EST
                 Republic not suspended. Film at 11. - (Ric Locke) - (28) - Dec. 28, 2001, 02:44:20 PM EST
                     And there you have it. - (bepatient) - (14) - Dec. 28, 2001, 03:21:07 PM EST
                         Correct != right? In a democracy? - (mmoffitt) - (13) - Jan. 2, 2002, 07:23:49 PM EST
                             In a democracy... - (bepatient) - (12) - Jan. 2, 2002, 11:40:17 PM EST
                                 Ack. - (mmoffitt) - (11) - Jan. 3, 2002, 09:32:31 AM EST
                                     However... - (bepatient) - (10) - Jan. 3, 2002, 11:32:26 AM EST
                                         I see that "however" and raise you a "but" - (Silverlock) - (9) - Jan. 3, 2002, 11:43:23 AM EST
                                             Can I get an Amen on that one!! -NT - (bepatient) - Jan. 3, 2002, 11:44:15 AM EST
                                             excuse me?? - (Simon_Jester) - (5) - Jan. 3, 2002, 12:14:36 PM EST
                                                 You're excused - (Silverlock) - (4) - Jan. 3, 2002, 12:20:35 PM EST
                                                     Thought I understood it... - (Simon_Jester) - (2) - Jan. 3, 2002, 02:55:24 PM EST
                                                         No backup - (Silverlock) - (1) - Jan. 3, 2002, 03:10:29 PM EST
                                                             the historically corrupt phrase - (boxley) - Jan. 3, 2002, 05:05:36 PM EST
                                                     A coupla other data points: - (jb4) - Jan. 4, 2002, 09:10:11 AM EST
                                             Well I guess florida has been a state longer - (boxley) - (1) - Jan. 3, 2002, 01:13:59 PM EST
                                                 You missed a big one in the South. - (mmoffitt) - Jan. 3, 2002, 01:20:20 PM EST
                     Out of curiousity... - (Simon_Jester) - (5) - Dec. 28, 2001, 03:27:29 PM EST
                         Check California, Illinois, and New York - (Ric Locke) - (4) - Dec. 28, 2001, 03:44:20 PM EST
                             No offense...but you're raising strawmen left and right. - (Simon_Jester) - (3) - Dec. 28, 2001, 04:32:26 PM EST
                                 No strawmen here -- willow twigs exclusively - (Ric Locke) - (2) - Dec. 28, 2001, 07:52:36 PM EST
                                     Cute twig - (Simon_Jester) - (1) - Dec. 28, 2001, 10:33:17 PM EST
                                         And it was a dahling sprig, too - (Ric Locke) - Dec. 29, 2001, 12:08:43 AM EST
                     You presume too much - (mhuber) - (6) - Dec. 28, 2001, 06:54:25 PM EST
                         Presume? I'm watching things happen. - (Ric Locke) - (5) - Dec. 28, 2001, 08:11:00 PM EST
                             You might want to work on the OCR system.... - (Simon_Jester) - (1) - Dec. 28, 2001, 10:41:13 PM EST
                                 Nothing is infallible - (Ric Locke) - Dec. 29, 2001, 12:05:32 AM EST
                             One obscure recount method: - (mhuber) - (2) - Dec. 29, 2001, 09:16:34 PM EST
                                 beg to slightly differ - (boxley) - Dec. 29, 2001, 11:48:12 PM EST
                                 Amen. -NT - (mmoffitt) - Jan. 2, 2002, 06:56:11 PM EST
             Got an idea for a new forum: Undead Horses. - (marlowe) - Dec. 28, 2001, 01:22:42 PM EST
         There should be a new law on this - (nking) - (5) - Dec. 28, 2001, 03:01:06 PM EST
             What a free-for-all that would be - (Ric Locke) - Dec. 28, 2001, 03:31:49 PM EST
             current law is just fine - (boxley) - (3) - Dec. 28, 2001, 07:37:48 PM EST
                 The courts should have stayed out - (nking) - Dec. 28, 2001, 07:39:08 PM EST
                 actually, I'm not sure that is possible... - (Simon_Jester) - (1) - Dec. 28, 2001, 10:41:52 PM EST
                     one more time - (boxley) - Dec. 28, 2001, 10:53:42 PM EST

Yeah, would be nice if "despair" wasn't such an appropriate word choice.
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