[Vigilanteman]

But in each one, the margin of victory was smaller than the 537-vote lead that state election officials ultimately awarded Mr. Bush.

Absolute horsecrap which doesn't pass even a basic smell test. As we all know, the Gore team was able to whittle the Bush lead down to 537 votes by cherry picking a handful of heavily Democrat leaning precincts in heavily Democrat leading counties.

Despite the Slimes attempts to play jiggery-pokery gymnastics here, a statewide recount would have most likely made that lead grow, not shrink.

[skr]

Not only hand-picking but also counting shadows as votes and handling punch-out voting cards until chads were all over the floor so that no one could properly count votes.