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>On 30-Oct-2012, duke <
duckg...@cox.net> wrote at alt.politics.democrats:
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>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:25:38 -0700 (PDT), "
fur...@mail.croydon.ac.uk"
>> <
fur...@mail.croydon.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> >On 27 Oct, 20:33, "Zacharias Mulletstein"
>> ><
zachariasmulletst...@isright.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> The GOP got away with stealing the 2000 and 2004 elections. There is
>> >> no
>> >> question of this. The alleged mail fraud is nothing compared to what
>> >> the
>> >> Repubadumps did.- Hide quoted text -
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>> >If I remember correctly, the 2000 election was the one which went on
>> >for weeks and the final recount was stopped before it was completed
>> >and G.W. Bush was declared the winner.
>>
>> You are almost right. The counting was not "stopped", per se. The USSC
>> told
>> the election committees that one standard for counting must be used - not
>> one
>> standard in this town and another standard in another town..
>>
>> > Given how close that election
>> >was, and that the recount was never completed, surely nobody can say
>> >for certain, one way or the other, what the result would have been if
>> >it had been completed.
>>
>> When the counting was fully complete, George Bush had truly won.
>The counting never was complete. Most absentee ballots were never counted in
>several states. In fact, that is normal policy - absentee ballots generally