But in counties using the optical scan system, or OpScan, only two per thousand were thrown out. Explains everything each campaign is doing, to my satisfaction, anyway. Since W. has the Secretary of State in his pocket, and since Gore probably has more votes and is managing to count them, it looks like this will be decided by the courts. Maybe Thomas will end up ruling that hand counting violates the framer's original intent. You never can tell.
Partisanship is reality.
Well, all this has changed now. Although it is now acknowledged that the uncounted votes are all in the democratic strongholds, where urban voters use really crappy out of date equipment, Republican pundits still insist that counting the missed votes amounts would be steeling the election. Those who care which of these privileged rich boys becomes commander in chief continue to be astonished by the depths to which the other side will sink, the bullshit they will utter, in order to gain the office of the presidency. It is a sad day in this nation s history. I love it.