In a message dated 12/18/00 12:49:56 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> I would be very surprised if anyone on this message board, and any sane
>  person in fact, agreed with you. The arguement that the Democrats were
>  somehow trying to steal the election, and that the Republicans are the
>  'good-guys' in this situation is quite laughable.
>
>  You have obviously not been paying attention to the coverage, otherwise you
>  could not have missed the fact that the 'recounts' requested by the
>  Democrats were aimed at votes that were NEVER counted at all! In any of the
>  recounts!
>
>  Wake up and check your facts before making wide-reaching statements

   I am not sure how you come to the interpretation that I hold the
Republicans up as "good guys", but it is obvious that your difficulty is with
the word "count".  Your response is evidence of the effectiveness of the Gore
spin.  All the ballots were counted twice by machine.  Those that were
properly executed were recorded as votes.  There is a difference between
counting and "divining a voter's intent".
Yours,
Issodhos
p.s. Your first sentence implies that there is a distinction between those
who make up this list and those who are sane.  I could be convinced of
this!:-)