Geez, I should be ashamed of myself. I left out the part about the second-puncher being seen on the grassy knoll. . .

Actually, when I went back and re-read my post I realized that in stating the possibility that someone tampered with the ballots I made it sound like I believed that actually happened. And although it could have, it probably didn't. I heard on local public radio that around 120,000 ballots are routinely disqualified in Chicago alone each election. I don't know how many people are in Palm Beach County, but there is a good chance that 19,000 bad ballots is perfectly reaonable.

What I really wanted to point out is that there are legitimate reasons to question the results in Florida and to not rush to any conclusions. There is more to the Democrat's complaints than the whining of sore losers. Luckily for me there are some sensible heads here in the Mudcat who found substance in my post. I was trying to be provocative to draw people into the discussion and ended up sounding like Mel Gibson in that conspiracy movie with Julia Roberts (but it turned out he was more than just another goof, didn't it?).

At any rate, trying to figure out a way to avoid these kinds of dubious conclusions in the future is undoubtedly more productive than speculation (or allegation) of past fraud.

Bart, apologizing all the way