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Bush Wins Re-re-re-re-count in Florida
From, Kentucky Citizen Digest, March/April 2001
 

For the people who still maintain that Bush didn’t legitimately win the election—that he was appointed to the position by the U. S. Supreme Court—there is bad news.

After the election several newspapers and other organizations decided that they would see for them-selves what the votes were in Florida, by counting the uncounted ballots that had been rejected by voting machines in the state.  The media enthusias-tically repeated Gore campaign claims that if these rejected votes were counted, the former vice president could have picked up as many as 600 votes—or at least enough to push the election his way.

But the counts coming in are showing just the opposite  On Jan. 22, the Miami Herald reported the Bush picked up 6 votes in their recount of Miami-Dade County.  Then, on Jan. 24, the Naples (Fla.) Daily News, which examined ballots in Collier County, found that Bush—not Gore—picked up 226 votes using the liberal recount standard favored by Gore.

If you didn’t hear this on the evening news, are you surprised?
 
 
 

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