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Bravo Ken! Just one thing, the votes they are asking to be counted now, have never been counted, so one can't consider them a re-count. They were thrown out by the computer because either they weren't punched hard enough, or a piece of the paper stuck and the hole wasn't completely open and the computer couldn't read them. They are called "under-votes" and in normal elections they are never counted. They wouldn't have been now, except by court order. There are 8,686 under-votes in Broward County from this election. How many there are in other counties, we haven't been told yet. This is something the general population has never been told, and I thank the Democratic party for bringing it to the attention of the Florida voters. just me, Marjorie At 03:23 AM 11/11/2000 -0500, you wrote: >I believe that every citizen of the United States of America, should be able >to have his or her vote properly counted, regardless of whether that person >is Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, atheist, agnostic, white, black, yellow, >brown, blue, or green, has a mansion, a mobile home, a dirty matress under a >bridge, or a cardboard box to reside in. Also, If he/she is straight, gay, >asexual, bisexual. If a genius, barely functional. or somewhere in between. >If there are not enough ballots, or equipment, or workers to do the election >right and count every vote accurately, it needs to be done over. If the >ballot is not clear to the LEAST intelligent and LEAST able voter, then a >worker must be available to aid that voter, so their vote is counted >properly. This is the right of every citizen in every state. With the >technology available, there is no excuse for anything less. If there were ten >recounts, the results should be identical, each time, or something is WRONG! >19,000 out of 54,000 people should not be denied their right to a valid vote >because of a "mistake". If 19, 000 out of 54,000 patients who took a >particular medication died because the directions on the label were unclear, >would anyone say "they had their chance, they did not know what they were >doing, so they deserved to die?" I don't think anyone would see it that >way! When the election in every state is carried out according to law, then >whoever wins, wins and that should be the end of it. Anyone commiting >election fraud, should be subject to to the full penalties of the applicable >laws in the locality it occurs. That's my opinion. >Ken Becker