Toby
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 Re: Re: Re: how Texas recounts punch card ballots & chads
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Originally posted by Charo
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That's all well and good, but what does it have to do with Florida?
My point was that in Texas, Bush's Secretary of State requested the 1997 law and Bush signed it, that requires a manuel recount (& only one) and also requires that all types of chads, including dimples, be counted.
This is still irrelevant since Florida is not Texas.
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But Bush's point man, James Baker, and Bush are nothing short of being hypocrites to complain about a manuel recount and counting various type chads when that's the way they wanted it to be required in Texas.
Ummm...no. From what I've seen of the Texas law, they have specific stated requirements which are consistent across the state and are in place. If Florida had such standards in place before the election, then they'd have been hypocrites, but they didn't.
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And since the 1997 law was passed, three Republicans in Texas have won the mandatory manuel recounts of identical punch card type ballots. By counting dimples and all the rest of the chads.
There are no mandatory manual recounts. There is only a preference for manual counts when both manual and machine recounts are requested. As I said, the way that the statute I've seen is written, this seems to be a compromise of expedience, cost, and noncontestability.
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Nothing was left out. If you want, I will send you the Austin American Statesman, the San Antonio Express-News and the Washington Post newspaper articles quoting the law.
I'll go with what I've seen on CNN and MSNBC.
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Florida, of course can do it by Florida law or if they have no applicable law regarding the various type chads, manuel or machine recounts, pass what they want.
Ummm...no. They cannot pass what they want in regards to this election. The rules have to be in place before the election is held. There were already rules and practices in place in these counties. Gore and his flunkies just wanted to change the established practices and rules to suit their purpose. They wanted to allow the fine upstanding canvassing boards the ability to manually count the votes which some of their practices had previously not considered votes, until those boards decided that either there wasn't a significant enough discrepancy to warrant a manual recount or not enough time before the court's arbitrary deadline to complete the recount. Then, all of a sudden, they became functionaries and bureaucrats.
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11-21-2000 06:29 PM
Re: Re: how Texas recounts punch card ballots & chads
Now let the "contest" begin. 
Re: Re: Re: Re: how Texas recounts punch card ballots & chads
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