Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote

NY Times ^ | 11/12/01 | By FORD FESSENDEN and JOHN M. BRODER

[PianoMan]

Even the Times is on board!

[ladyinred]

We knew this, what took them so long? LOL!

[Petronski]

Those Betties over at DUh.com are peeing their pants and popping the pamprin tonight. What a howl!

[onyx]

Exercise in futility. Typical of democrats.

[Free the USA]

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[July 4th]

This is great! Everyone's swinging to our side on this, even though they could have easily written a story saying Gore "could" have won.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Be still my heart....the NY Times? Thanks for the heads up. Drudge, how could you?

The (unfinished) Ballad of Al Gore).

[John Jamieson]

I'm glad we didn't have a terrorist attack while this was being decided.

[katze]

"More than 113,000 voters cast ballots for two or more presidential candidates. Of those, 75,000 chose Mr. Gore and a minor candidate; 29,000 chose Mr. Bush and a minor candidate. Because there was no clear indication of what the voters intended, those numbers were not included in the consortium's final tabulations." from the article

Will Democrats find a way to provide ballots with a huge, red arrow pointing to proper candidate, by the time 2002 elections roll around?

Amazing the NYT would publish this, but then some facts can't be hidden forever.

[RnMomof7]

The left will still deny it..I say thank God! May we now end that election?

[hispanarepublicana]

Right now, the Democratic Undergrounders (all 12 of them) are REALLY blasting their own liberal press.

[Objective Reality]

The TIMES!!! Holy crap, dude. That's pretty much it, save for the thirty-odd communists populating democraticunderground.com, who are embroiled in a hilarious meltdown as the headlines emerge. Maybe they'll go trash a McDonalds in retaliation. Losers.

[Agent Smith]

This is news???

Yawn...let's move on.

[Grig]

This also assumes that county canvassing boards would have reached the same conclusions about the disputed ballots that the consortium's independent observers did

The assumption can not be justified, the decision of each disputed ballot was subjective so the whole report is meaningless, as is any recounting that tries to turn an unclear ballot into an actual vote.

[Texas Cornhusker]

I want to believe drudge did this in order to get the bed-wetters hopes up only to have them dashed in mere hours.

[Agent Smith]

Agreed. Nice touch by Drudge.

BTW, isn't bedwetter all one word?

[anniegetyourgun]

I thought Drudge did this to hype his Sunday show. Isn't that the m.o.?

[Verginius Rufus]

Somehow the Times manages to turn Gore's attempt to exclude ballots from overseas military into a magnanimous insistence on accepting votes that should have been excluded.

Besides the cases where military votes were successfully excluded by the Gorons, there are the ballots requested by military voters which never got to them. I also recall a story about some military unit in Florida suddenly being sent on maneuvers on election day (so they couldn't vote--but no advance warning so they wouldn't have cast absentee ballots).

[BunnySlippers]

It's official ... but the Jeffery Toobin's of the world will STILL whine.

[KC_Conspirator]

Hmmmm...I find it peculiar that they did not do any research on illegal vote fraud like the felon votes or all those military votes that were thrown out.