posted on November 17, 2000 07:43:46 AM
According the the laws of the state of Florida, the 67 counties were required to recount their votes and report the results of their recount to Sec. of State Katherine Harris by last Tuesday. However, up to ten Florida counties never actually did a recount. According to reports in the state and national media, what took place in a number of counties was that the figures were checked in various ways, but the actual ballots were never sent through a machine. Thus, the ballots, themselves, were never physically recounted.
According to a chart at Fox News, the following ten Florida counties have come up with the exact same figures on the recount as they had on the original count: Bay,Brevard, Calhoun, Columbia, Gilchrist, Hernando,Jackson, Monroe, and St. Lucie. Given Harris' murky reading of Florida law, one would not be surprised to learn that what folks commonly think of as a "recount" is not a "recount" at all. Perhaps Harris would say that the other 57 or so counties had gone too far in actually recounting the ballots. At any rate, this understanding means that when Mr. Baker, Bush's Florida spokesman, says the ballots have been counted, and re-counted,
and counted again, and now Gore wants them counted once more, what he really means is that the ballots have been counted once in all the counties and recounted in most counties. (The second recounting Baker alludes to took place in 1% of the precincts in several counties. Further, more Republican counties have had hand recountings than Dem counties, which accounts for Bush's present lead) Bush, of course, repeats what Baker has said, but, really, what does Bush know? He's out of the loop on all of this, as his question and answer press conferences have indicated. Is this what we can expect in a Bush administration? Looks that way.
posted on November 19, 2000 05:08:56 AM
The reason why many counties were not recounted is the method in which votes were cast. Florida uses several different types of voting machines and ballots. Some of these methods, being fully automated, have nothing to hand count. (other than absentee)
As for the count, recount...
Results within 1% require verification.
Step One: Ballots were rescanned and the results showed a different count as well as an unusually high percentage of no-vote ballots. The next logical step would be to investigate the ballots to determine why this happened.
Step Two: A sample group of no-vote ballets were examined to determine why the machines failed to count so many and if the no-vote ballots would affect the outcome. Upon examination of this sample, ballots were found that were punched but not read by the machine due to clogging of the machines from chads that had come loose during the scanning and chads that had not fully detached when punched. The amount of valid votes (from the sample group) not recorded by the machine were then multiplied to estimate the total impact on the election. This number was sufficient to reverse the lead by Bush. Therefore, the next logical step would be to hand count all rejected ballots.
Step Three: Hand count all machine rejected ballots and revise vote totals.
This is not a count til you get the result you want scenario. This is the most fair and logical steps to take given the circumstances.
posted on November 19, 2000 05:27:05 PM
krs and everyone else reading...
Why would you believe anything the main stream media has said about this mess..?
They can't get it right...You have seen that in over 12 days now..
What I see so far is, believe it if it fits your mindset,,,find fault with it and reject it if it doesn't fit your mind set...Now your acting just like Bush and Gore and their troops...
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