If someone believes this law is unfair, that person should work to change it, but this is the law in effect at the present time. Mr. Gore and apparently Mr. Goldstein seem to think the law applies only if they like the result. That is utter nonsense. Any company that works with large amounts of money uses machines to count it. The reason is that machine counting is far more accurate.
Hand counting ballots means human error, as well as allowing for the possibility of human bias.
I am totally amazed at the ridiculous arguments the Gore supporters will put forth to try and justify an untenable position. We should relish the history lesson this controversial election gives us. In the past in Europe, Africa, South America and other places far away, now and in the past, political power structures stamped out free press and dissension, overpowered the judicial and legislative branches and targeted their own citizens for an awful loss of rights and crimes against humanity. We have open opportunity to change and grow without resorting to the use of force and anarchy. Almost all of us had forebears who came here to escape the injustice of their birthplaces elsewhere.