chester, the winner was decided yesterday when the electoral college gave
george w. bush 271 votes. nothing that is done now will make a bit of
difference. gore can not legally win. the whole process is over until
inauguration day. if you recount the votes ten times and gore got more votes
10 time, george w bush will be inaugurated president on January the 20th if
he does not drop dead or something and if something like that happened now,
dick chenney would be inaugurated and after that the speaker of the house,
and so on. al gore is not in the line of officers that will be sworn in. the
only way al gore can be president now is for bill clinton to be
incompacitated (he'd be president until the inauguration day) or to come
back in another election. it's over, closed, kaput, ended, final... pick
your word.

every body may as well get used to it and get over it as far as florida's
count is concerned. it was over as of yesterday. it is no  longer a point to
be decided. it is now a done deal.

on the other hand i have heard that al gore has an offer from a prestigious
ivy league university. don't know that he has decided to take it or not.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chester Worwa [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 9:24 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [joan-list] OT - God Overrules W :)


But what if Gore does end up being the winner?  If I
were Gore I'd recount them myself.

--- "Barber, Kenneth L." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> they are being counted by several groups, i think
> four at present. there
> will be four differnt results. if there are more
> counts there will be more
> different results. the count that mattered happened
> yesterday, bush got 271
> electorial votes. he is the next president. he will
> be president for 4
> years. all the different counts will change nothing.
> gore lost the election
> in tennesee not florida. he could not win his home
> state. he wins at home,
> florida matters not. i'll say this though. my
> fathering law works the polls
> in florida, and not once in florida history has a
> dimple been counted as a
> vote. not once in any county, in any precient. no,
> not one. until now.
>
> you are right. one county had a malfunction on the
> recount and submited the
> first total. think the courts handled that one. 52
> vote difference. no other
> counties just the one.
>
> you are right, you are no legal expert. there was no
> fruad in the elections.
> lots of foulups, lots of attempts to bend the rules,
> but, no fraud. that is
> why the courts acted as they did.
>
>
> the people here can do the same thing that others
> can do. pray for our new
> president and pray that he'll do the country good.
>
> cheers and good day.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Peterson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 2:20 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [joan-list] OT - God Overrules W :)
>
>
> Hi all!
>
> Have you heard that as Bush is getting ready to move
> into the White
> House, all those votes that the corts would not
> allow to be counted
> are now being counted?  It looks like after alllll
> those votes are
> counted, Al Gore will have taken Fl by quite a wide
> margon.
>
> There is also a story going around the some counties
> who submited
> their recounts didn't do any recounts at all.  All
> they did was submit
> the numbers from their original counts over and over
> again.
>
> Now I am by no means a leagle expert, but if all
> this turns out to be
> true and Al Gore turns out to be the real winner
> after all, it seems
> to me the Gorge Bush would be the first president to
> enter the White
> House via frod.  So if that indeed turns out to be
> the case, does
> anyone here know what kind of leagle acction could
> be taken?
>
> So happy hollidays to you all!!-Gary
>
>
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, greer.bobby wrote:
>
> > As Anne Richards(the lady W. defeated for gov.)
> once said, "The good
> > news is you win an election, the bad news is you
> have to govern for four
> > years."
> >
> > Bobby
> >
> > Barber, Kenneth L. wrote:
> >
> > > Bush To Be Smitten Later Today
> > >
> > > i think he is smittened already in having to
> govern this country.
> >