The secretary of state is elected, not hand picked in Florida. Carl Meyer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Moody" <remoody@midstatesd.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 3:03 AM Subject: Re: American vs Canadian efficiency > > > > > > America first to put a man on the moon. The world's leader in science, > > medicine, entertainment, and so the list goes on. > > > > How the heck did you manage it when you have difficulty counting. > > > > Roger > > Don't forget soap operas. > > Gore won the popular vote by 300,000 out of 100 million votes cast. But in > American Democracy the popular vote does not count for the President. > Instead the states vote in what is called the Electoral College. Usually > the electoral votes come out like the popular vote but not this time. Each > state has an pre-assigned number votes. Florida has 25. Winner of the > popular vote in the state takes all. In the Fla. recount Bush's lead is > now down to 500 votes from 1,500. So with 10,000 votes uncounted, (ones the > machines rejected for whatever reasons) and his lead dwindling (hmmm it > could just as easily gone the other way) Bush's best interest is not to > take a chance on those ballots but rather preserve the count he likes. Now > the Governor of Fla. who just happens to be Bush's brother agrees and > instructed his hand picked secretary of state to hurry up and declare his > brother the winner. So 500 votes out of several million will get all of > Floridia's 25 electoral votes which will give a majority in the Electoral > College. > To get the President elected by direct popular vote would require an > ammendment to the Constitution. ---ric (the "c" stands for consititutional > guarantees) >
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