Reply #90: I read a different report from newspaper. If OVER VOTES had been counted [View All]

[sweetladybug]

Gore would have won in every count. The republican tried every way in the world to stop people from voting and making sure their vote did not get counted. I can just imagine Republican in charge in Democratic areas in FL, punching extra holes in ballots to make sure they didn't get counted.
Read this:

Gore's Victory

By Robert Parry
November 12, 2001

So Al Gore was the choice of Florida s voters -- whether one counts hanging chads or dimpled chads. That was the core finding of the eight news organizations that conducted a review of disputed Florida ballots. By any chad measure, Gore won.

Gore won even if one doesn t count the 15,000-25,000 votes that USA Today estimated Gore lost because of illegally designed butterfly ballots, or the hundreds of predominantly African-American voters who were falsely identified by the state as felons and turned away from the polls.

Gore won even if there s no adjustment for George W. Bush s windfall of about 290 votes from improperly counted military absentee ballots where lax standards were applied to Republican counties and strict standards to Democratic ones, a violation of fairness reported earlier by the Washington Post and the New York Times.

George W. Bush was not the choice of Florida s voters anymore than he was the choice of the American people who cast a half million more ballots for Gore than Bush nationwide.