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This is the detail that continues to puzzle me. These people just can't scream loud eough "count ALL the votes!" But they have shown no sign of so much as a twinge of indignation over the illegal exclusion of the military absentee ballots and have made no effort to make sure they are included.

So I can only assume from this, that their cry of outrage is really, "count all the non-votes and overvotes that are ordinarily excluded; and if the holes are punched for both Bush and Gore, then it is obvious that it was a stupid voter and we know that stupid voters vote overwhelmingly for Gore, so those votes obviously can't be counted for Bush. The fix was in and we were cheated out of the votes we bought and stole."

The irony is that they waited a full two months to release the results - hoping to have a greater impact - only to have an Airbus 300 crash turn the study into a one-morning non-story.

I called a reporter from the Chicago Tribune and then an Editor about this (the exclusion of the Military Ballots from the recount process). Its clear that the Military ballots were not included in the recount. The Editor went so far as to "admit" that this was only intended to review "the disputed ballots" in the FL election.
A damned small distinction, I think!!