Arduous ballot review winds up today (YAWN !!)

St. Petersburg Times ^ | November 11, 2001 | Eric Deggans

[PhiKapMom]

Forgot one thing! Did this recount include the military absentee ballots that were tossed? That seems to keep getting lost in all of this! Those were legitimate ballots not under or over votes but members of the press don't seem to want anything to do with those ballots! Would it be too bold to ask WHY? (as if I didn't know!)

[Brandonmark]

Do you suggest that we follow the White House and RNC and remain silent or should we bury the offending papers and CNN in phone calls and emails?

No, I am just saying that regardless of the outcome, there will probably be no official comment.

As far as those of us who care more about our country than the media, we should be outraged that in the middle of war is NOT the time to even be suggesting our commander in chief may not be legitimate, regardless of the findings of their ridiculous study.

[Brandonmark]

Did this recount include the military absentee ballots that were tossed?

I would LOL, except it's not funny since they obviously did NOT include the military ballots, especially ironic when we are at war!

[Wait4Truth]

Good! Because I AM outraged and I expect that every freeper worth his or her salt will feel the same. I think we should react as one huge avalanche and contact everyone we know to do the same. I also agree with PhiKapMom about the hillary factor. The woman is pure evil - perhaps we should contact her, as well.

[Nora]

Of course they weren't required to be objective, don't be silly, LOL.

One thing that I am interesetd in is whether another ballot story will lead to any more interest in how ballots became overvotes - pre-punched for Gore or tampered with after casting?

[Brandonmark]

Late last week, the St. Petersburg Times received more than 3,000 protest e-mails in a coordinated campaign by people suggesting the media was sitting on the results of the review

I think we can do better than 3K emails!

[Brandonmark]

I also wonder if they included the votes of New Yorkers who cast votes in both states?

[Wait4Truth]

3000? A mere drop in the bucket...LET'S ROLL!

[Brandonmark]

....or the votes of hundreds who illegally cast votes in Dade County?

[jwalsh07]

Personally, I think that Veterans Day in the midst of a war is a perfect opportunity to remind America how the democrats tries to disenfranchise military voters.

[Brandonmark]

It might be interesting to use the liberals own mailing list to the media, by changing the message: Leftists email to release NORC results or maybe someone here could post the email adresses of the offending media.

[Wait4Truth]

Exactly! It shows just how dumb they are to do this on Veteran's Day. Of course, they hate the military so why would they give this any thought? We all need to gather up all the anger we still feel about Sept 11 and put it to good use in burying these newspapers and CNN with calls and emails. We must not let our President down!

[cksharks]

Let me see if I have this right! There were a set of rules and regulations in place before the election. But because the stupid morons in the state of Fl dont know how to read and wright we are supposed to care and change the rules after the fact to suit them. Weeeelllll There is a rule and law that says I caint beat the s--t out stupid reporters. But we realy need to change that law because I feel the need to do just that! Works for lme.

[wildwood]

"(.But) I think we all felt we had a duty to go back and find out what the ballots say."

In the end, NORC would review 175,010 ballots, obtaining nine fewer undervoted ballots than counties reported Nov. 8, and 1,427 fewer overvotes -- a difference of 1.25 percent.

WELL, it seems to ME that these organizations did not do their DUTY, after all.it seems to ME that they did the same thing the original election officials did...compensated for a flawed system the best way they knew how.

[Brandonmark]

from the Freeper archives November 18, 2000: General Schwarzkopf on Military Absentee Ballots

Let's Roll!

[Leto]

Make than 10's of thousands in Dade county and millions nationally cast illegally by the rats. No need to look at that though doesn't fit their leftist agenda.

[Brandonmark]

Exactly!

[alnick]

So the consortium consists of eight participants, seven of which are left leaning. Reminds me of the earlier recounts where the rats outnumbered the Republicans by a huge percentage.

[alnick]

Forgot one thing! Did this recount include the military absentee ballots that were tossed? That seems to keep getting lost in all of this! Those were legitimate ballots not under or over votes but members of the press don't seem to want anything to do with those ballots! Would it be too bold to ask WHY? (as if I didn't know!)

Yes, I remember hearing a news story on December 12 (that was the date of the SC decision, right?) that a court had ruled that the military ballots which had been thrown out due to Gore's henchmen's dirty tricks were to be counted and added to the total. Then of course, the SC ruled, and the media dropped the ball on following up on the military ballots. So that was never done, and I'm sure that the consortium didn't do it either. Also, I'm curious if the consortium recounted Broward County. The "official" recount of Broward was so crooked that any recount of that county would add to Bush's numbers.

[Wait4Truth]

I am more than willing to help with this effort. My only problem is that I will be at the hospital for most of tomorrow with a relative having out-patient surgery. BUT, when I get home, I'm willing to keep the thread going for the rest of the day and night - I'll help herd the cats on FR! I honestly do believe that we must bury them in a blizzard of response - and you have listed a number of things to attack them with. LET'S ROLL!!!