CDR: Re: Close Elections and Causality

[Me]

From: <George at orwellian.org>
> #    This week, both Bush campaign Chairman Don Evans and chief
> #    strategist Karl Rove have claimed that about 19,000
ballots'
> #    presidential votes were invalidated, or not significantly
more
> #    than four years ago, when turnout was lower. But that
19,000
> #    represents only the invalidated ballots with two holes
punched
> #    for president, the commissioner says. More than 10,000
additional
> #    ballots were invalidated for having no presidential vote,
she
> #    explains, for a combined 30,000.

This is exactly what I have heard the GWBians say.

The 10,000 un-votes were described as a sign of how many people
hate both men.


> I asked a [Bush-voting] friend why the live-and-let-die
attitude
> towards such a large loss of people's votes, and he admitted it
> was because he wanted Bush to win, and that Gore probably had
> the votes.

My cat's breath smells like cat food.