Heh...
I got about half way through these posts when I had to stop to state something.
I don't necessarily like Geroge W., and I'm more of a negotiator than a politician, but I will say this.
Wether or not you like what G.W. Bush has done with his presidency, he DID win the election. I'm military so I can really vouch for the importance of the overseas ballots that were not allowed to go towards the vote.
Also, when you talk about this hand recounting stuff... Recounting over and over. Allow me to highlight something for you.
Whenever a hanging 'chad' found, it was tallied as a vote for Gore if there was reason to believe it was the voter's intention to vote for Gore (for some reason, Bush ppl didn't have too much trouble dealing with the ballots. hand dexterity or something like that).
With this said, the vote in Florida is IMMEDIATELY ruined.
Because, my friends, there is no way to prove wether or not the machine system counted it as a vote for Gore in the first place or not.
For all we know, each of those hanging chad ballots could have been tallied twice, once by the computers and then again by the hand counters.
But really, that crap is irrelevant because of all those (something like 10k if i recall correctly, don't quote me on it though) Florida overseas ballots that weren't counted. Something like 85% of those were for Bush, enough to give him a decisive victory in Florida.
Luckily, by some miracle, we ended up with the right president (and by that I mean the one who actually won, not the "better" president)
As far as 'total population', well who wins is not based on percentages. It's based on electorate ballots. Gore could have had a 100% victory,everyone in the US votes for him, if all the electors vote for Bush, Bush wins.
Just so we're clear, it's nothing personal.
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