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Originally Posted by gldstwmn
We'll never know because these people were guilty of cherry picking ballots in order to prevent a further, full on recount.
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and that cherry picking gained Kerry 17 votes and lost Bush 6 in this instance. That is hardly evidence that Bush gained by their crimes
In any event, I think the facts suggest that a recount would have not gained Kerry 118,000 votes and lost W 136,000 votes without gaining any. I think the larger problem was with the number of voting machines in D counties, etc. Even then though, the numbers of gained and lost votes to win are pretty large in that like something around 150,000 voters would have had to have been unable to vote and there is no evidence of that number.
Having said that, I think the GOP's actions here were despicable and they should be tried. In this instance they were and the result, though just and I am happy for it, gained Kerry nothing and failed to support the argument that they were giving votes to W.
edited to correct 118,000