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Edited on Tue Sep-16-03 09:28 PM by gully
Read on...for an interesting perspective on the issue.
"These false attacks range from accusing Al Gore of not fighting hard enough to win in Florida to blaming Al Gore for the pro Bush media's unprecedented campaign against him. They include allegations that Gore abandoned African American voters who were illegally purged off of the Florida voting rolls, that he vetoed public demonstrations, that he did nothing to promote voting reform and counting all of the votes. The truth is that there was nothing short of starting a civil war that Al Gore could have done to have gotten the uncounted, legal votes in Florida counted."
And...
"Had Al Gore not fought to have the uncounted Florida votes counted, the illegal felon purge, along with the additional illegal acts committed by the Bush campaign and its surrogates, would never have been discovered and there would not now be the NAACP's lawsuit, which is making its way through the courts. It is important to remember that the uncounted legal Florida votes that Al Gore fought to have counted were the votes of African Americans, Hispanics, the elderly and women.
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" The allegation that Al Gore did not fight to have all of the votes counted is false. The Gore campaign asked for the votes to be counted in the counties where there were the most uncounted undervotes, since these were the largest number of votes that had not been counted.
Under Florida election law in 2000, all statewide candidates had the right to file election protests in the counties where they disputed the vote totals and wanted a more accurate count. Florida law allows the campaigns 72 hours to file these protests with the county canvassing boards. There was no mechanism for a statewide count.
Had the Gore campaign instead chosen to dispute the purging of legal voters who were illegally denied their right to vote on Election Day, this would not have added any votes to the vote totals. Rather, it would have blocked any attempt to count the legal votes that had been cast on Election Day and not counted because the 72 hour deadline would have passed -- and once that deadline passed, the campaign had no recourse."
It's a very interesting piece, I recommend reading the entire article.
~Peace
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