RIGHT ANSWER - I fully agree. In every state, there are ballots that do not get counted because of double votes or failure to actually vote, or even don't have a candidate they want for that office so they don't vote for anyone for that office. I don't care what party someone is - when votes are counted and then recounted, and there is no malfunction of the machine . . . continuing to count using unexplained and unidentified criteria is not part of democracy. This is not the first election decided by electoral college instead of popular vote . . . history continues to repeat itself. There are people in the polls from opening to closing who are there to help if you can't read the ballot, don't understand the ballot, or whatever. All a person has to do is ask. DeanaCo@cs.com wrote: > San Diego Union Tribune 12/6/00 > "Lieberman asked "What will we tell our children if every vote is not > counted?" > "As a former teacher, I have been concerned about Joe Lieberman's question. > What we should and must tell our children is that if they fail to mark the > right answer on the exam, or do not fill in the entire test, they will not > get credit for their answer. If they do it often enough and if they do not > ask for help or read the directions properly, they will fail." > > "We should tell them that when they are older and move to Florida, they must > fully read their ballots and remove the entire chad and no keep the nation > waiting because of their mistakes. We must also tell them to read and read > well, to play by the rules and expect a favorable outcome. Teaching them to > make excuses for their mistakes has led to a society of victims unable to > take responsibility." > > ==== CRAIG Mailing List ==== > All Material sent through Craig-L > is copyright 2000 by its original author. > Permission must be obtained from the original author, > for the reuse of any text "whole or in part". > Craig Genealogy Web Page > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/9791 > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query!