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    LL>> was the closest election in US history, with George W. Bush   
    LL>> being declared the "winner" by one vote, 5-4.  :)   
      
    BK>>  True.   
      
    BB> And forever blew the myth of "Your Vote Counts" out of the   
    BB> water.  :(   
      
    BK>  The votes that didn't count were the tens of thousands of   
    BK>  legitimate voters who were taken off the voting rolls by   
    BK>  Katherin Harris, who ran the elections in Florida, and Choice   
    BK>  Point, a company Harris contracted to do just that.   
      
    BK>  If those tens of thousands of legitimate voters, mostly   
    BK>  democratic voters, had been allowed to vote there would not have   
    BK>  been a close enough election to take it to court, Gore would   
    BK>  have won cleanly.   
      
    BK>  If Ralph Nader had not siphoned off even a few thousand votes   
    BK>  there would have been no room for it to go to the SC, Gore would   
    BK>  have won cleanly.   
      
    BB> Paper said this is going to be the most expensive election   
    BB> ever!  Some ungodly number of dollars in play already and   
    BB> more to come.  May the deepest pocket win!  (Yet people   
    BB> still vote?)   
      
    BK>  Thanks to the 2000 5-4 vote that let the right wing chose our   
    BK>  supreme court. Thanks to Jeb Bush stealing Florida, and Ralph   
    BK>  Nader opening up the possibility.   
      
    BK>  We are not out of that disaster yet, nor will we be for a long   
    BK>  time.   
      
   And people wonder why we lose faith in Government. :)   
      
      
      
       
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