I think -- and I'll admit to having voted for Gore, mostly because I think that the Republicans are doing their best to undo the entire New Deal -- that I probably would have taken the same stand about dimpled ballots, given the evidence. I certainly feel that the courts acted correctly in refusing to throw out all of the absentee ballots in two counties on the basis of the evidence given. (Although I'd like to see charges made on some level. The supervisors of elections in those two counties, realizing that there were problem applications, would have done better to hire temps to make sure that all the applications were filled in, regardless of the party affiliation of the voter, rather than allow one or even two parties access. What about the independent voters, after all? And could they really have access to the database for reading without access for altering?)

I wish that the first US court that Bush went to had ordered the same remedy that the Florida Supremes just did. Or that Bush had taken Gore's offer, which would have had substantially the same effect, weeks ago.

I also feel that Gore, when the results of these manual counts are in, should accept the results, regardless of what they are. Bush too.