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I don't remember the web site, but there was one where you could watch the vote tallies as the precincts were coming in. With a very small percentage yet to come in (and the experts agreeing that it wasn't enough for gore to take Florida) the election was called for GW, and we waited for his acceptance speech.

When it all hit the fan, I went back to the web site and noticed that there had been a huge amount of votes dumped in for gore from one or two precincts in Florida, more than the percentage allowed.

I don't recall hearing this brought up during the re-re-re-re-counts, but FReepers were busy showing how these were manufactured votes, and how the likely scenario was that they stacked ballots and punched them for gore. Then to give cover for the fraud, and to substantiate the "confusing butterfly ballot" claims, they stacked used ballots and punched them for gore...hence the problem with pregnant/dangling chads and the double votes for gore/PB or gore/Bush. They were safe in doing this because, if the votes were cast for gore, gore kept the vote...if the vote was cast for PB or GW, they would be disqualified as a double vote, as they would also have the gore chad punched. A win-win for them, or so they thought.

I also remember them trying to say that no one there would vote for GW, and especially not PB, so they must have meant to vote for gore. PB agreed. This was also one of the ways they tried to discern voter intent in one of the re-re-re-re-counts.