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Forward this e-mail to your friends, and have them sign-up @ http://www.bushetrain.com - AOL link at bottom. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Contents: 1 Majority of Americans Think Bush Behaving More Presidential 2 Gore Claims to Want Every Vote Counted, but Refuses to Stop Democrats Trying to Throw Out Legal Votes for Bush 3 FL Supreme Court Rules Palm Beach "Butterfly" Ballot Legal 4 Gore Asked Miami Mayor Why Miami-Dade Recount Stopped 5 Notable Columns _________________________________________________________________ 1 MAJORITY OF AMERICANS THINK BUSH IS BEHAVING MORE PRESIDENTIAL Fox News/Opinion Dynamics Poll, 11/29-30 900 registered voters nationwide Over the last 3 weeks, which candidate do you think has behaved in a more presidential manner? 50% Bush 29% Gore Who do you believe won the election? 56% Bush 25% Gore Do you think Gore should concede the election or do you agree with his decision to contest the Florida election results? 56% Gore should concede 39% Gore should contest the Florida election results Al Gore says he's contesting the Florida vote count of behalf of voters and democracy. Do you think Gore is fighting for recounts in Florida more for democracy or is he fighting for himself? 19% Gore is fighting for democracy and the voters 66% Gore is fighting for himself Which do you think is the more accurate, unbiased way to count votes - by machine or by hand? 67% Machine counting of votes is more accurate 19% Hand counting of votes is more accurate Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of George W. Bush? Date_____Favorable_____Unfavorable_____Net Favorability 12/1________60%____________34%_______________+26 11/3________56%____________36%_______________+20 Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Al Gore? Date_____Favorable_____Unfavorable_____Net Favorability 12/1________46%____________47%_______________-2 11/3________54%____________39%_______________+15 Do you think Al Gore is better described as a fighter or a whiner? 37% Fighter 48% Whiner If the election were held over again tomorrow, for whom would you vote: Bush, Gore, Nader, or Buchanan? Now - 12/1_________Then - 11/3 36% Gore___________43% Gore 49% Bush___________43% Bush 3% Nader__________3% Nader 1% Buchanan_______1% Buchanan _________________________________________________________________ 2 GORE CLAIMS TO WANT EVERY VOTE COUNTED, BUT REFUSES TO STOP DEMOCRATS TRYING TO THROW OUT LEGAL VOTES FOR BUSH Al Gore, News Conference, CNN, 11/27/00: "Ignoring votes means ignoring democracy itself, and if we ignore the votes of thousands in Florida in this election, how can you or any American have confidence that your vote will not be ignored in a future election?" THE TRUTH: ~ If Gore wants all votes counted, ought to urge dismissal of their case. ~ The voters did nothing wrong - it was the result of computer error. In an effort to make sure that voters received their ballots, local Republicans asked the Supervisor of Elections if they could manually fix the misprints - suit would disenfranchise 15,000 voters. ~ Democrats are trying to throw out all 15,000 absentee votes in Seminole County, even though less than 5,000 of the absentee ballot applications required correction, just to obtain a net gain of votes for Gore in Seminole County. ~ The number was on an APPLICATION, not on a ballot. ~ Both parties sent out materials like this. A computer glitch caused approximately 5,000 Republican absentee requests to contain incorrect voter registration numbers. ~ This has NOTHING to do with the integrity of the ballots or the validity of votes. LEGAL INFORMATION ~ No traction for the legal claim. ~ State law in no way bars what took place. ~ Merely corrected a Voter ID Number on an application. ~ Control on application is voter's signature and last four digits of Social Security Number which must be included and is provided by the voter. ~ Voter ID Numbers are public information _________________________________________________________________ 3 FLORIDA SUPREME COURT RULES THE PALM BEACH BALLOT IS LEGAL Florida Supreme Court Ruling: "[W]e conclude as a matter of law that the Palm Beach County ballot does not constitute substantial noncompliance with the statutory requirements mandating the voiding of the election." - Andre Fladell v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, 12/01/00 Gore's Legal Team Insisted The Ballot Was Illegal: Former Secretary of State And Gore Advisor Warren Christopher: "...there are serious and substantial irregularities resulting from the ballot...that ballot was confusing and illegal, and that rising out of this is the need for redress in order to make sure that the will of the people can be properly honored..." - News Conference on Florida Recount, CNN, 11/09/00 _________________________________________________________________ 4 GORE ASKED MIAMI MAYOR WHY MIAMI-DADE RECOUNT STOPPED Miami Herald's Manny Garcia and Joseph Tanfani, 12/01/00: "Hours after the Miami-Dade canvassing board called off its recount, Gore phoned county Mayor Alex Penelas (D) asking for an explanation. Penelas said Gore 'asked him if 'there was anything I could do to provide extra resources' to help the count go forward.' Penelas also said 'Gore 'never pressured me''" Full 12/1/00, Miami Herald Article: http://www.herald.com/content/today/news/national/digdocs/064082.htm _________________________________________________________________ 5 NOTABLE COLUMNS Washington Post COUNTING ON SOME SLIPPERY LANGUAGE George F. Will 11/30/00 "...despite the supposed sophistication of Boies, Gore & Lieberman, all its arguments have rested on two braided assertions, each too weak to gain significant strength from the braiding: "First, anything done with a ballot constitutes a cast vote. Second, no vote can be considered counted until a presidential intent has been ascribed to it, even if the ascription involves intuiting the meaning of 'marks...barely discernible to the human eye' (the words of Judge Charles Burton, who presided over Palm Beach County's recount). "Beneath such result-oriented lawyers' artistry lurks a pernicious premise. It is that casting a ballot is a task so challenging for many voters that the task cannot be completed without the intervention of lawyers-as-intuitors. This soft bigotry of low expectations infused Al Gore's eerie speech Monday evening." Full Column: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4816-2000Nov29.html ================= ================= Miami Herald HUNDREDS OF FELONS CAST VOTES ILLEGALLY: Since 1868, it has been illegal for felons to cast ballots in Florida. David Kidwell, Phil long and Geoff Dougherty 12/01/00 Excerpts: "At least 445 Florida felons voted illegally on Nov. 7... "The tainted votes -- found in a review of nearly half a million votes cast in 12 Florida counties -- provide evidence that the presidential race was influenced by thousands of ineligible voters. Nearly six million voters in Florida's 67 counties cast ballots. "Nearly 75 percent of the illegal ballots discovered by The Herald were cast by registered Democrats. "The votes could be seized upon by the Bush campaign to argue that a large number of illegal votes were probably cast for his opponent, outweighing the effect of any recount. "'It's a very powerful argument,' said Robert Jarvis, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University. "The Herald found 62 robbers, 56 drug dealers, 45 killers, 16 rapists and seven kidnappers who cast ballots. At least two who voted are pictured on the state's online registry of sexual offenders. "Clarence Eden Williams, 77, of Pahokee, also voted. His picture is posted on the state registry of sexual offenders for his crimes against children. His son was surprised his father cast a ballot. "'He's got Alzheimer's, and he can't even carry on a conversation anymore,' said Clarence Williams III. "The Herald review included...8 percent of the 5.9 million votes cast on Nov. 7. It encompassed all votes cast in Palm Beach and Pasco counties, most votes cast in Duval County, and only absentee votes in Miami-Dade, Broward, Lee, Leon, Hillsborough, Clay and the Panhandle counties of Escambia, Okaloosa and Bay. "To find felony voters, The Herald compared a list of voters in those counties with a Department of Corrections database listing felons who had served at least a year in prison. If the pattern found in the study is the same statewide, more than 5,000 felons likely cast illegal ballots." Full Article: http://www.herald.com/content/archive/news/elect2000/digdocs/080337.htm ================= ================= RealClearPolitics.com THERE IS NO MORAL EQUIVALENCY John McIntyre 11/30/00 For the past three weeks all we have heard from Democrats and the media about the struggle in Florida is that "both sides are at fault," "neither candidate has been presidential," and "a pox on both your houses." This case for moral equivalency between Bush and Gore is critical to the Democrats' argument. If, as the rationale goes, both sides are to blame and the election ended in a tie, then "why can't we just have a compromise that affords both sides with a 50/50 chance win the Presidency?" This would seem like a reasonable solution, provided those underlying suppositions were true. The problem for Gore is that the suppositions are not even close to being true. Both sides are not to blame. And this election, while ridiculously close, did not end a tie. Vice President Gore had a right to conduct a recount of the votes. He has had that recount of votes. When the recount upheld the original result, that should have been the end of this fiasco. However, even before the original recount was finished, Gore, and his partner in crime Senator Lieberman, decided in their minds that they really won the election. What has followed has been their all-out assault to change what happened on election day in Florida. Full Column: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-11_30_00_JM.html _________________________________________________________________ AOL link: <a href=http://www.bushetrain.com<;E-mail Update Sign-up</a< _________________________________________________________________ Paid for by Bush Cheney Recount http://www.georgewbush.com ============================================================================== To unsubscribe, please go here: http://www.georgewbush.com/unsubscribe.asp?email=EBASS@ENRON.COM To change your e-mail address or any other subscription information, please go here: http://www.georgewbush.com/MyGeorgeW.asp
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