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Thread #29543   Message #376152
Posted By: Wolfgang
17-Jan-01 - 10:08 AM
Thread Name: BS: Opinion of Clinton???
Subject: RE: BS: Opinion of Clinton???
Troll wrote on 16th of January the Palm Beach Post said, in a very small article today that the Miami-Dade undercount has been completed. Bush picked up six (6) votes..

Well, I found the article 'the hard way' in the January, 14th edition (maybe when you wrote 'today' you meant 'today ago', grin).

-Troll doesn't tell us, that the six votes only refer to a recount of dimples and chads: If everything were counted -- from the faintest dimple to chads barely hanging on ballots -- 251 additional votes would have gone to Bush and 245 more would have gone to Gore

-Troll could have told us from that same article that at least 2,257 voters apparently poked at their ballot cards without properly inserting them into the voting machines. Miami-Dade County Elections Supervisor David Leahy said that's because the voters failed to follow directions.

Of these miscast votes, 302 more would have gone for Gore than Bush. But troll didn't tell us that.

-Troll could have told us that the Post review, however, found that the rate of voting mishaps was greater in black-majority precincts than elsewhere.. But troll didn't tell us that.

Don't trust troll to give you a balanced view even if the information looks like a direct citation from a newspaper. Judge for yourself: Palm Beach Post (14th of January).

Wolfgang