🚀 go-pugleaf

Hmmm, interesting.

Maybe they should recount all those "pro Bush" absentee ballots over, and
over, and over, and over, and over until they get the result they like?

http://www.mrc.org/news/goregaffesvideo.html
http://www.crosscircuit.com/html/Camp2000/ballot.html


Gonzo Jones <gonzojones@NOyahoo.SPAMcom> wrote in message
news:3a14069b.181672876@news.netquest.com...
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 22:23:00 -0500, pioneer_technology@attglobal.net
> wrote:
>
> >3000 Marines/Navy in from Ships in the Persian Gulf, and many more
> >Military from ships/Air Wings based overseas (TDA), about 1500 from
> >Israel. Your 4,000 number must be from a re-re-re-recount
> >
> The numbers will be up in the air until Saturday, but it STILL doesn't
> look good for Bush...recount or no recount. The following is an
> article from newsmax.com - one of THE most right-wing sites on the
> web:
>
> http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2000/11/14/202449
>
> Gore Has Advantage in Absentee Ballots: Tallahassee Report
>
> Republicans hoping that George W. Bush will get a big boost when
> Florida's absentee vote is tallied on Friday, Nov. 17, may be in for a
> big disappointment.
>
> While military absentee voters are expected to break heavily for Bush,
> most of their ballots arrived stateside by Election Day via the
> military's "fast mail" system.
>
> Those votes have already been counted, according to election
> supervisors interviewed by the Tallahassee Democrat. If true, that
> would severely diminish what was expected to be a big Bush vote
> windfall.
>
> "Right now we have only 40 or 50 waiting," Linda McEwen, election
> services manager for Okaloosa County, told the Democrat. Okaloosa is
> home to Elgin Air Force Base.
>
> "In Santa Rosa County, with the Pensacola Naval Air Station, 504 of
> the 687 absentee ballots mailed overseas made it back in time for the
> first count," county Elections Supervisor Doug Wilkes told the
> Democrat.
>
> "In Escambia County, where 1,802 ballots were requested, 626 were
> returned by Nov. 7; by noon Monday, only 136 more had come in,
> awaiting Friday's count."
>
> In fact, Democrat strategists believe that late absentee arrivals will
> be overwhelmingly civilian and substanitally Jewish, a demographic
> group that heavily favors Gore.
>
> "Edward G. Rendell, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and
> many other Democrats have said that the party is counting on a
> preponderance of Floridians living in Israel to put Gore over the
> top," reports the Tallahassee paper.
>
> "David Froelich, U.S. voting coordinator in Israel, estimates that
> 4,000 Floridians live in Israel. Of those, he said, about 2,500 will
> vote by absentee ballot - more than enough to tilt the state for
> Gore."
>
> "This presidency will be decided by the Florida Crackers and the
> Israeli Jews," according to Lance DeHaven-Smith, director of the
> Florida Institute of Government and a scholar on state voting trends.
>
> The votes of the "Crackers" (rural white Floridians likely to vote
> Republican) are already in, DeHaven-Smith told the paper. "The issue
> now is whether Floridians in Israel will have the last say."