Author: James Swafford
Date: 19:23:18 11/17/00
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On November 17, 2000 at 20:55:03, Michael Cummings wrote: >Sometimes your views are harsh and I know in the past you have gotten in trouble >for them. > >But your comments are pretty much right coverning the US and the elections. You >may get people in the US thinking that we are bashing their country. And to a >small degree they are right. Sure feels that way. :-) > >But what the people of the US and the rest of the world want, to end this comedy >of world proportions, is for the votes to be counted correcly. Since the machine >cannot seem to do it right, then by hand, in which we have three people all >having to agree that a stupid hole has been punched. I don't understand why it's a comedy. It's just a close election. Everything is proceeding as it should. If you were to count six million of anything, there would almost certainly be some small margin of error. Big deal... recount and be done with it. > >We have bush feeling threatened wanting to do everything in his power to stop >anymore votes being corrected and going to Gore, and we have Gore just wanting >to win. That's fair. > >Don't they know that hand counting could make the results go the other way to >Bush's side. Why is it that all the mistakes are going to help Gore. Unless >something bad was going on and Bush was somehow fixing these machines. Why is he !!! Any "corrections" can only help Gore and hurt Bush, since Bush is now winning. If you're winning by X, and a recount shows you're actually winning by 2X, big deal. You haven't gained a thing. >so threatened. Why cannot we get an accurate count. > >This is what is making them look pretty stupid, and seeing both camps bicker at >each other makes me and other lose respect for them each day. > >The elections are a joke, I think there have been many mistakes made, and I >think the numbers are off in allot of places. I saw one place that Gore was >easily winning, go to a recount and he was losing badly at the end of it. If >that is the case, what about all these other states, how accurate are they. Networks jumped the gun too early in several cases. Maybe the distribution wasn't as normal as they thought before they announced a "winner." Who knows. As far as accuracy - it's tough to be 100% accurate. Always been that way, but never has it mattered so much. > >I think thought that this should be put in the General Chess forum, and related >to chess in a way that it is playing like a game of chess. That way you can >relate it to chess and thus add it to that forum. I think it should be put in the "recycle bin." :-))
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