[yoe]

The mainstream press and media did much to cover up such stories at the time. This is a reminder of how corrupt the democratic machine can be and will be in 2004. Chicago set up some rules in time for the election so prisoners could vote! Some 15,000 did - but our Military absentee votes were denied. Democrats are ruthless and those corrupting the process have ruined their party.Do not forget!

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[Cyber Liberty]

Geeeeezzzzz, not this chit again....

[BlueAngel]

I bet the Bush administration will be sure the military votes are counted this time.

Bump.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

You can only get a dimpled or pregnant chad if you place more than one voting card in the voting machine.

[RippleFire]

bump

[68skylark]

The writers and editors at the Times obviously feel this story will be a good way to encourage people to vote Democratic. But I'm not so sure.

Outside of Manhattan (and a few other kook enclaves) the U. S. military is actually held in very high esteem. It's the biggest and best force for good in the whole world. The more voters get reminded that the Democrats are anti-military, the better for Republicans.

[CyberAnt]

"What the story fails to report"

So what's new .. it's called selective memory.

I do know that after a year had gone by, and the Miami Herald and a couple of other left-leaning papers pooled their money and did their own recount (Recount #7 I think) .. they STILL COULD NOT COME UP WITH A GORE WIN. However .. this story was either hidden in the back pages of most papers, or not reported at all.

This is nothing new. CBS was only too happy to say that Cheney's Halliburton had overcharged the govt .. but when Halliburton was cleared of the charge .. CBS has not even reported on the story. Again .. what they didn't report tells more about who they are than what they did report.

And .. as FOX has done for 2 days .. they have pointed out that many of the members of the media always say "Cheney's Halliburton" when it's something bad .. and just "Halliburton" when it's something good .. and in the case of CBS .. they don't even mention it at all.

[expatpat]

Zelnick was a reporter for one of the broadcast network's (NBC?) TV evening news programs for many years.

[Dead Corpse]

Does anyone havea final total on the election results? Including some of the settled lawsuites for voter fraud? I've already got the "official" numbers from the Sec. of State, but what about more current numbers? It seems not a week has gone by without some other legal case being decided in Bush's favor. Does he actually have the majority vote by now?

This would go a long way towards shutting up those detractors of the electoral college.

[jpl]

The NYT and the liberal establishment have clearly decided to try to take down Bush by harping on Florida and the myth of the stolen election. It's guaranteed to fail, because most normal people have long since "moved on".

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Excellent article by the WSJ. Surely their staff must hold the inept Gray Lady in humorous contempt.

[Chris Tucker]

This is a total non-story. Even USA Today did an exhaustive study back in April of 2001 and concluded Bush won fair and square.

Plus the dagger went through the Rats' hearts when FL voters re-elected Jeb Bush. Anyone who still believes, despite overwhelming facts and evidence to the contrary, that Gore won the 2000 election is seriously smoking some lethal drugs.

[TigersEye]

Readers of the New York Times were treated on Sunday to a massive report claiming that hundreds of overseas Florida ballots cast in violation of state law were nonetheless counted by election officials under pressure from representatives of George W. Bush.

What the story fails to report is that federal law required Florida to count these votes.

I'm convinced that these people want a civil war. They did everything they could to contravene the constitution in that election. Since then they've done their level best to convince everyone with a two digit IQ that George Bush and the Republicans 'stole' the election. On top of that they want to push the idea that we're supposed to be a pure democracy and the Electoral College is some Republican conspiracy to keep the po' folk down.

It's no big deal coming from the rags-and-snot street protesters but this keeps coming from major media outlets. These East Coast liberal elitists know it's BS. Don't they know that most Americans know it's BS?

[elfman2]

I didn’t know that the contested military ballots were not part of the final count. Thanks for the post!

[tdadams]

Why let the facts get in the way of pushing an agenda, isn't that the motto of the NY Times?

This is a vivid retelling of just how sleazy and underhanded Gore and his operatives were in their quest for power. What disgraceful maneuvering - trying to disenfranchise military voters - for someone who wanted to be commander in chief.

[ladyinred]

In Bush counties, 29% of overseas ballots were disallowed, but the figure was 60% in Gore counties; in pliant Broward, the Gore kill rate was 77%.

This tells it all. To all of those who think LIEberman is such a wonderful guy, remember he went along with this, in fact endorsed it.