Posted on 01/17/2017 10:52:28 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
In the first full study of Florida’s ballots since the election ended, The Miami Herald and USA Today reported George W. Bush would have widened his 537-vote victory to a 1,665-vote margin if the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court would have been allowed to continue, using standards that would have allowed even faintly dimpled “undervotes” — ballots the voter has noticeably indented but had not punched all the way through — to be counted.
The study, conducted by the accounting firm of BDO Seidman, counted over 60,000 votes in Florida’s 67 counties, tabulating separate vote totals in several standards categories.
While the USA Today report focused on what would have happened had the Florida Supreme Court-ordered recount not been halted by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Herald pointed to one scenario under which Gore could have scored a narrow victory — a fresh recount in all counties using the most generous standards.
Under most other scenarios, the papers reported, Bush would have retained his lead. . .
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The Media dirtbags lost that battle.
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
So, the LIEberal dog whistle sub title would be:
Republicans have been stealing elections since at least 2000!!!
Eat sh!t, sore loserman.
If they were going to be inclusive, they would have to count all of the military votes, in which case Gore wouldn’t have had a chance.
They STILL didn’t count the military votes? How did they get away with that one?
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