I hate the practice, because a million votes went uncounted in California while everybody was screaming about Florida.
IMHO, if all the military ballots had been counted, the Democrats couldn't keep going around saying "Gore won the popular vote by 400,000." One simply cannot make that claim when there are a couple million ballots across the country that were never counted, and would have leaned Bush heavily.
They why are absentee ballots sent to our military overseas? And how would they know until the ballots were counted that it wouldn't change the result?
IMHO, if all the military ballots had been counted, the Democrats couldn't keep going around saying "Gore won the popular vote by 400,000." One simply cannot make that claim when there are a couple million ballots across the country that were never counted, and would have leaned Bush heavily.
We made a big stink in Florida when they refused to count the absentee ballots. Even the military was upset. But the Rats deemed that the ballots "weren't received in time," or they "weren't filled out correctly," yada yada yada. Anything they could find to trash them.
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