Reply #41: Sorry, if all the votes had been counted Gore would have won.

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This is a fact that is ignored by the MSM so the false belief is still held by many. The thing Republicans fear most is efficient voting with accurate counts, that is why they fight both in every part of the country. It is why Blackwell worked so hard to make sure everyone who qualified didn't vote.

Question: Who actually received the most votes in Florida's 2000 presidential election?
Answer: Al Gore. State election officials ultimately declared George W. Bush the winner by a margin of 537 votes, but during and after the election dispute, questions remained about the uncounted ballots of 175,010 voters, ballots that had been rejected by error-prone tabulating machines employed in many Florida counties. Confusion and conflict, much of it generated by partisan intrigue, prevented these ballots from being counted during the election controversy. However, in 2001 every uncounted ballot was carefully examined in a scientific study by the University of Chicago, which concluded that when all the votes were counted, more votes had been cast for Gore than for Bush.

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/opinion/3973122.htm

But the results in Florida and, therefore, in the presidential election might have been different had the 67 counties been ordered to proceed with a manual recount of all undervotes and overvotes.

Under several scenarios examined by the consortium, and using a standard in which two of the three reviewers agreed on the markings on each ballot, Gore emerged with more votes than Bush.

The overvotes that could have provided the margin for Gore were on ballots where voters tried to be extra-clear in their choice and ended up nullifying the vote. They filled in the oval next to a candidate and then filled in the oval for "write-in" and wrote the same candidate's name again.

Those overvotes were rejected by machines, but some county officials examined those ballots on election night to reclaim the votes. Other counties, though, didn't check for those obvious votes. Gore had more than 500 of those votes in Lake County and more than 250 in Escambia, netting him gains of 172 and 157 votes against Bush in those counties.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A12623-2001Nov11¬Found=true


How can't you understand that there was massive, institutional, voter suppression in Ohio? You refuse to address it when I make an issue of it, but it is central to the discussion. Explain why it doesn't matter that Blackwell worked hard to keep eligible voters from voting? How do you have any idea what the overcome of a fair election would have been?