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Article #28Keep Your Lips Sealed
From: Frank
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 00:00
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 00:00
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The question is no longer who had more votes but rather: Will fraud be allowed to determine the winner, or will fraud be exposed in court with the result being the invalidation of a corrupted hand count. �����"Our goal," said one lawyer as he patiently lectured his new charges, "is to preserve the Al Gore vote." The volunteers nodded. "It's very, very important that if you see any kind of mark--a scratch, a dent, a pinprick in Al Gore's column--that you challenge." �����"When someone then asked what they should do if they found a Bush ballot with an indent, the lawyer said: "Keep your lips sealed." http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/decision2000/lat_dems001117.htm By ELIZABETH MEHREN and JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Times Staff Writers "a scratch, a dent, a pinprick in Al Gore's column" will be considered to show "intent" of the voter to have wanted to punch out the chad and cast a vote for Gore. That "intent" will have one of two effects: a) a ballot that has a clear hole in it in George Bush's column will then be considered as having two holes, and the Bush vote will then be invalidated. One less vote for Bush, one more Bush supporter denied the right to cast a vote as given by the U.S. Constitution. b) a ballot that has no hole punched for any Presidential candidate will then become a vote for Gore. The voter who cast a vote of "dissatisfaction" through a non-vote will have his or her vote cast for Gore without knowledge or consent. The voter's right to not vote for Gore is abridged. Needless to say, the electors who are legally handling the ballots are mostly, if not all, Democrats. Their keen eyesight can spot "a scratch, a dent, a pinprick in Al Gore's column" but will never see such a mark in the column of George Bush. As far as the Republican observers are concerned, the hand is quicker than the eye, but they are allowed to speak the words "object" or "objection."
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 104eff,4f47ff88e482e23b,start X-Google-Attributes: gid104eff,public X-Google-Thread: f94ac,4f47ff88e482e23b,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf94ac,public X-Google-Thread: 108aca,4f47ff88e482e23b,start X-Google-Attributes: gid108aca,public X-Google-Thread: 1026d8,4f47ff88e482e23b,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1026d8,public X-Google-Thread: 10c449,4f47ff88e482e23b,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10c449,public X-Google-Thread: f8421,4f47ff88e482e23b,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf8421,public X-Google-Thread: fbdd2,4f47ff88e482e23b,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfbdd2,public X-Google-Thread: 10fa57,4f47ff88e482e23b,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10fa57,public From: Frank <fmartino3@earthlink.com> Subject: Keep Your Lips Sealed Date: 2000/11/19 Message-ID: <3A184ECF.9C681FF5@earthlink.com> X-Deja-AN: 695380289 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 974636603 63.215.228.184 (Sun, 19 Nov 2000 04:23:23 PST) Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 04:23:23 PST Newsgroups: free.control,ca.politics,co.politics,misc.headlines,ok.general,alt.journalism,dfw.politics,houston.politics