Gore Won Florida! (Democrats still Shouting this Absurdity!)

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Gore Won Florida!

On November 27, Republican Secretary of State Katherine Harris officially certified George W. Bush as the "winner" in Florida by 537 votes.

Since that date, independent investigations by the media have revealed that many illegal votes were counted - while many legal votes were not. 

If the votes in Florida had been counted by non-partisan election officials in compliance with the law, Gore would have won Florida.

Unfortunately, George W. Bush, his brother Governor Jeb Bush, Secretary of State Katherine Harris, a partisan Republican majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Republican-owned media did everything in their power to prevent a fair and legal count of the votes.

In other words, these Republicans used their enormous power to steal the Presidency of the United States. Indeed, the untold story of Floridagate is as chilling as Watergate. 

This is a crime against American democracy. Democrats.com demands a thorough investigation and the prosecution of all criminal actions.

And because he is ultimately responsible for the Theft of the Presidency, we call upon George W. Bush to resign.

Note: To read all of the coverage on Democrats.com of Election 2000 and related stories, click the following links:

• Theft of the Presidency (major revelations)
• Stolen Election
• Katherine Harris
• Jeb Bush
• Felon Purge
• Election Reform

1. Media Consortium Statewide Count of "Undervotes" and "Overvotes" Proves Gore Won Under ANY Standard

The Media Consortium hired the National Opinion Research Center to examine 175,010 ballots that were never counted in Florida. The investigation took 8 months and cost $900,000. No matter what standard for judging ballots is applied, Gore wins.

	Gore Gain	Gore Deficit  or Lead
Certified by Katherine Harris		-537
Valid votes found after certification	+59	-478
Correctly marked paper ballots	+493	+15
Full punches	+100	+115
Poorly marked paper ballot	+309	+424
3-corner chads	-208	+216
2-corner chads	-111	+105
1-corner chads	-45	+60
Dimples with sunlight	+88	+148
Dimples	-41	+107

Unfortunately, the members of the Media Consortium insisted on distorting the analysis of their own clear data (see "Spin Control" below).

2. Miami Herald Statewide Count of "Undervotes" and "Overvotes" Proves Gore Won by 662

Without counting a single hanging or dimpled chad, Gore won by 662, according to the Miami Herald. The votes below were crystal clear votes as determined by the Herald's accounting firm, BDO Seidman. Under Florida law, all of these ballots should have been counted by election officials on Election Day. Their failure to do so is Official Misconduct, not "Voter Error"!

	Gore Gain	Gore Deficit  or Lead
Certified by Katherine Harris		-537
Clear "Undervotes" (optical scan)	+319	-218
Clear "Undervotes" (punch card)	+198	-20
Clear "Overvotes"	+682	+662

Unfortunately, the Herald insists on distorting the analysis of its own clear data (see "Spin Control" below).

3. Other Media Counts Lead to the Same ConclusionYou can see the same data in greater detail here:

• The Miami Herald  
• Unknown News

Date	Event	Gore Gain	Gore Deficit  or Lead
11/27/00	Certified by Katherine Harris		-537
12/8/00	Florida Supreme Court ruling	+383	-154
12/18/00	Lake County (Orlando Sentinel)	+130	- 24
12/19/00	Broward (Palm Beach Post)	+164	+140
12/29/00	Hernando (Hernando Today)	+4	+144
12/30/00	Hillsborough (Tampa Tribune)	+120	+264
1/3/01	Gadsden (Democrats.com)	+40	+304
1/14/01	Miami-Dade #1 (Palm Beach Post) - minus prior recount included in 12/8	-6 +11 -209	+100
1/20/01	Collier (Naples News)	-226	-126
1/27/01	Palm Beach #1 (Palm Beach Post)	+682	+556
1/28/01	15 County (Orlando Sentinel) -minus prior recounts in Lake and Gadsden	+366 -170	+752
2/10/01	Orange (Orlando Sentinel)	+203	+955
2/15/01	Seminole (Orlando Sentinel)	+13	+968
2/26/01	Miami-Dade #2 (Miami Herald) also: how the media twisted this recount into a "Gore lost" story	+49	+1,017
3/8/01	Osceola (Orlando Sentinel)	+25	+1,042
3/10/01	Palm Beach #2 (Palm Beach Post)	+102	+1,144
3/10/01	Martin, St. Lucie (Palm Beach Post)	+92	+1,236
	Total Gore Gain from Recounts	+1,773

4. Overvote Analysis - Gore's True Margin of Victory

If every county in Florida - not just the Republican ones - had state-of-the-art voting machines that allowed voters to correct their mistakes, Al Gore would have won by 46,466.

Date	Event	Gore Gain	Gore Deficit  or Lead
1/28/01	Analysis of overvotes in 8 counties by the Washington Post	+28,510	+28,510
1/28/01	Analysis of overvotes in 15 counties by the Orlando Sun-Sentinel	+944	+29,454
2/8/01	Gore-Libertarian overvotes in 16 counties by Orlando Sun-Sentinel	+797	+30,257
3/10/01	Analysis of overvotes in Palm Beach County by the Palm Beach Post (overlaps Washington Post analysis above)	+6,607
5/11/01	Analysis of overvotes statewide by the Miami Herald (overlaps with all of the above)		+46,466

5. Disputed Votes

There are several categories of votes that have been widely disputed. Unlike the votes above, these disputed votes could not have been resolved by county canvassing boards, either on election night or during the subsequent recounts. 

It is impossible to quantify most of these categories, but we can try to give our best estimates.

Categories favoring Gore

• Absentee ballots cast statewide by Republican voters following the illegal solicitation of absentee ballots by the Florida Republican Party: 50,000?
• Absentee ballots that could not be read by voting machines, but were illegally "duplicated" by county election officials: 10,000 (60% Bush?)
• Legal voters who were disenfranchised by Katherine Harris through the criminally inaccurate purge of "felons": 1,100 (90% Gore)
• Absentee ballots cast in Seminole and Martin counties by Republican voters following the criminal alteration of defective ballot applications by Republican operatives: 5,000 (99% Bush)
• Votes meant for Gore but cast for Buchanan because of the "butterfly ballot" in Palm Beach: 3,000 (100% Gore)
• Voters who went to the polls but were unable to cast a vote because of language problems (and no translators) or physical disability: (70% Gore)
• Registrations submitted from black colleges but not processed: (90% Gore)
• Overseas military ballots that were not legal, but were counted because of massive pressure from the Bush campaign: 680 (71% Bush)
• Police checkpoints near black precincts: 0

Categories favoring Bush

• Illegal votes by felons: 5,600 (90% Gore?)
• Premature network projections for Gore 10 minutes before polls closed in the Panhandle: 10 (60% Bush?)

6. Racial Discrimination

Florida voters were not treated equally. If you were black, your vote was significantly less likely to be counted. This was not because blacks were less experienced voters - this was due to institutional racism.

• Whose Votes Don't Count?: An Analysis of Spoiled Ballots in the 2000 Florida Election
• Report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
• NAACP et al v. Katherine Harris et al
• Votes of Poor Are Discarded 3 Times More than Votes of Rich Across the US

7. The Untold Story

A wide range of suspicious activities were reported by eyewitnesses and the news media. Many of these activities have still not been investigated.

• Questions the U.S. News Media Refuses to Ask about the Stolen Florida Election   
• Oral Majority: The Evidence Room  
• The Florida Overvote: Tragic Mistake, or Katharine Harris with Tweezers?   
• "Lost" Votes and a Stolen Election   
• Bush Never Won Florida   
• 13 Myths About The Results Of The 2000 Election   
• The Florida Disaster: Before, During, and After   
• Scary Facts about the Florida Vote   
• Al Gore's Margin of VICTORY in Florida   
• How Did This Happen?   
• Election 2000 FAQ   
• The Five Worst Republican Outrages   
• Democracy Subverted - November 2000 Election Irregularities

8. Spin Control - Media Distortion of the Stolen Election

Each new revelation about the Stolen Election has been accompanied by articles that were deliberately distorted by editors and reporters to deny the reality that Gore Won Florida.

• Miami Herald Distorts Florida Recount Analysis to Hide the Terrifying Truth: Its Own Data PROVE Al Gore Won Florida  
• Media Lies Once Again to Declare Bush the Winner  
• The Bush Propaganda Machine Strikes Again in Florida  
• Now its Unofficial: Gore Did Win Florida  
• Gore Moves Ahead in Florida Recount

9. Republicans Would Never Accept a Gore Victory

• NY Times Exposes GOP Absentee Ballot Fraud That Stole 292 Votes for Bush
• Bush Set to Fight An Electoral College Loss
• A President by Judicial Fiat

10. The Republican Criminals Who Shut Down the Miami-Dade Recount

These are some of the thugs who staged a riot at the Miami canvassing board and shut down the recount. Most of these thugs are present or past employees of Congressional Republicans. The riot was led by Rep. John Sweeney of upstate NY. All of these thugs - and their Congressional bosses, led by Tom DeLay - should be prosecuted for criminally interfering with a federal election.

[lavaroise]

THis nation is getting unstable by the day. Dems are about to wish to claim power after AlQaeda does its job they are waiting for. A coup is their accusation, a coup is what they seek.

[Toddsterpatriot]

They forgot to subtract the criminals who voted for Gore -10,000.

Bush still wins.

[deport]

But they forgot one little item.......

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[Toddsterpatriot]

All of these thugs - and their Congressional bosses, led by Tom DeLay - should be prosecuted for criminally interfering with a federal election.

The election was over, dumbasses. They were interfering with the democraps theft of the election.

[ChadGore]

Re: "This is a crime against American democracy."

Then bring your case to the courts. untill then, bite me soreloserman.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

LOL let them continue this losing streak of lies.

[Let's Roll]

Bush won the national popular vote when you throw out the inner city precincts that went more than 90% for Gore - always a sign of fraud according to election experts - or those that had 110% turnout or stayed open 3 hours past the official closing time etc. These things happened in the rest of the country.

[parsifal]

But Al Gore only wanted to recount the votes in four primarily Democratic counties. GORE NEVER ASKED FOR A STATEWIDE RECOUNT. parsy.

[Bubba_Leroy]

This is a standard democRAT strategy that they have been using for years. All you have to do is tell a lie often enough and eventually the sheeple will assume that it is the truth.

[jwalsh07]

The only thing the Vice Asshole won was a ticket to nowhere.

[Lazamataz]

I just love how this sticks in their craw. The angrier they get, the happier I feel.

[lentulusgracchus]

Could you be a little more specific? How would the Dims go about staging a coup d'etat?

The rhetoric on this page supports your accusation -- the shrillness is absolutely totalitarian. Look at all the work they've expended spinning their loss! This is real fanaticism -- justifying the unjust, comprehensively and across the board, full sets of ginned-up numbers, lies wall-to-wall and in depth.

This page suggests to me that if these guys ever mounted a coup for real, they would make the Communist Party of the Soviet Union look like amateur hour if they got hold of the government. I'm mildly surprised they didn't require the Congress to summon the 3rd Infantry Division from its barracks to get the Clintons out of the White House on Inauguration Day ..... these guys sound like totally bitter last-ditch partisans, the kind of people you wouldn't even want to know.

There is a more workaday explanation for the effort expended here....or rather, for its pubicizing.......there's an election later this year, isn't there? And so this could be just a piece chumming the Demon Rats, putting the smell of blood on the air, calling all the rabid True Believers to the bitch-goddess's service this summer. Whaddayathink?

[lentulusgracchus]

They forgot to subtract the criminals who voted for Gore -10,000.

No, that number is in there.....five or six thousand votes, 90% Gore ballots -- and they're screaming their heads off about the 1100 (their estimate) Gore voters who were mistakenly purged from the rolls because the computer thought they were convicts? Oh, wait, I forgot -- I just called them partisan fanatics, didn't I?

[elfman2]

I wish them many more victories!

[lentulusgracchus]

So their beef with Katherine Harris is, she cancelled their stolen election!

Guess they'll insist next time that we just let Mary Berry count the votes. That'll be fair.

Gore's people have raved ever since about "winning" the national popular vote. I wonder if that would stand up to a searching, meticulous recount in California.....wonder if Gray Davis ever got around to directing that the absentee ballots be carefully and faithfully counted, hmmmmm? Oh, but I'm sure he did! </sarcasm>

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[johniegrad]

Ahh, feeel yore pahhnnn!!

[lavaroise]

If the current leadership or DC was decapitated or a bad terrorist act happened, you could see calls again by Dems to impeach Bush or to replace the current system to be ruled by lefitst elites - elites that playing president at US universities as we speak. They are clearly seeking instability by pronouncing those seditious "findings" in a time of war, playing in the hands of AlQaeda. It is obvious, yet we let them get away with it.

[lentulusgracchus]

They were interfering with the democraps theft of the election.

Excellent point.......how about indicting some of them?

And while we're at it.....how about some of Dubya's people start documenting the fanatics that put this story around, for a big, fat defamation lawsuit? And isn't libel actionable?