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...Every expert will tell you that machine counts have a five percent margin of error," Dershowitz said...
...Everyone in Florida has had their vote counted. Those votes have been counted a second time. And tonight they have been certified. And we do not know yet who has won." Hand-counting, Bush said, "introduces human error and politics into the vote-counting process." A statewide hand-count, he said, would only be "compounding the error by extending a flawed process statewide... This would be neither fair nor accurate, it would be arbitrary and chaotic...
...that the next president will have all the authority that a U.S. President should have. Our election system is broken. It is time to demand that our will be registered quickly, accurately and fairly. An election is not meant to be a glorified poll with marginally smaller margins of error, but an accurate and binding reflection of the will of the people. It is time to standardize and modernize our voting system in the U.S., if not for the people's sake, than at least for Dan Rather's. Let's get him back to reporting on Alaskan prize pumpkins...
...Everyone in Florida has had their vote counted. Those votes have been counted a second time. And tonight they have been certified. And we do not know yet who has won." Hand-counting, Bush said, "introduces human error and politics into the vote-counting process." A statewide hand-count, he said, would only be "compounding the error by extending a flawed process statewide? This would be neither fair nor accurate, it would be arbitrary and chaotic...
...they have a new target: Broward County, after initially halting its hand recount, has decided that machine error was in fact responsible for a four-vote Gore-ward swing in a sample hand count. Wednesday, the two Democrats on the canvassing board outvoted the Republican, and a county-wide hand count is on in a county that went 2-1 for Gore...