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...Hampshire Senate race for Democrat Dick Swett, only to see Republican incumbent Bob Smith win. Such gaffes have helped create an anti-VNS backlash. Citizens for a Fair Vote Count charges the VNS misleads voters, depresses vote count, and even perpetuates electoral fraud. While some of this veers dangerously close to Black Helicopter territory, there are legitimate concerns that inaccurate information, or information given out before the polls close, could have an impact on the election...
...remedies? We could ban exit polling; state courts have struck such laws down, but the U.S. Supreme Court might feel differently. Or VNS could just keep the numbers to itself. The service argues that it needs to release its results hours before the polls close so that television networks can plan their coverage, which is, in a word, so much b.s. - nobody needs that much time to rehearse "we're projecting a Democratic win in Massachusetts." The real reason is that not to release early violates the basic raison d'être of journalists, who live for those rare...
...beginning of the morning, as it were, Gore seems to have lost this agonizingly close election in the most heartbreaking way: He just couldn't inspire voters. There was little else negative to ascribe to him as a candidate: He's intelligent, dutiful and a loving husband and father. He worked extraordinarily hard throughout this election, running himself nearly into the ground during the homestretch. But the fire in his belly just didn't transmit. There was no spirit in his voice, no excitement in his words. This election was all about turnout. And Gore just couldn't turn...
...Both the Gore and Bush campaigns must have made tactical mistakes to allow the Florida vote to be so close. What were those mistakes...
...loyalist, there are several fuming Democrats. As the recount began in Florida's bitterly contested presidential race, faithful Dems were pointing angrily to Nader's 97,000 votes, 10 percent of which would have pushed the Sunshine State into Gore's column. In Oregon, where the race remains too close to call, Nader is also expected to pull in a healthy vote count - numbers that could certainly have saved the state for the Democrats, if Nader had not been a factor...