Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 16:06:47 11/17/00
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On November 17, 2000 at 17:12:30, Thorsten Czub wrote: >if they now decide not to count anymore, but they have votes to count, > >they do not fullfill the wish of the people who have voted. > >if they don't want to count the votes, why elections anyway ???? > >for me there are one 2 possibilites: > >to count the votes (ALLLLLLLLLL votes) or NOT to count the votes. I think that you presume much by starting a thread criticizing another country in a computer chess usenet group. It's a giant politial mess and it will end up getting resolved in the courts, and there will generally be a big disaster and people will be upset for four years at least. Oh well, I can recall being upset by presidential elections in the past. Bush doesn't want them recounted, since he's winning. Gore loses nothing by asking for a recount, because he's losing. The judge who said one thing belongs to Gore's party, and the Florida official who said another thing belongs to Bush's party. Florida has a lot of old people who punched their ballots badly, so they couldn't be read by the computer, but if you look at them you can figure out who they meant to vote for. Gore would gain a lot if he could have votes recounted in places where there are a lot of old Jewish people from up north, who tend to vote for his party. If there is going to have to be a recount, Bush would probably prefer it to be state-wide. This is an election involving something like four million people, which will be resolved by under a thousand votes, and will decide the election for leader of a country of a quarter billion people. Florida is also one of the weirdest states in the US, with apologies to any Florida residents who may take offense. If you want to read some very good books set in Florida, I suggest you read anything by Carl Hiaason, another good European author for you, just like Kuhn. So it's a big mess, and if I gave a damn about it, I might figure it out well enough to have an opinion. However, I'm here to do computer chess so I don't care so much, and I'm just thankful that so far nobody has started shooting over this. Regardless, I can't figure out why you care, since it's not your country that's involved. bruce > >start counting and then by decision of a lawyer stop counting, that >is like a coitus interruptus by a direct order/command of a lawyer. > >Unbelievable that something like this exists in a democratic country. > >if USA IS a democratic country. i thought it is, but maybe this was only >prejudice. > >as it looks to me (in the moment - only my personal opinion) >the usa is not anymore democratic. the counting remembers me >on UdSSR elections... btw. > > >i can't believe that what the news of CNN and others tells me is true. > >this is not a democracy. in a democracy the people decide >the person or party they want to elect. not a lawyer. and ALL >votes have to be counted, not only the votes of people without glasses >or with white colored skin or living in NY or in LA. > >what is this ? can't they just count the votes ? > >it seems the bean counters are not able to count to 10. >they stop with 8 because the lawyer says: time limit reached ! I do decide. > > >the best satire is always coming from live.
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