Reply #29: There is different analysis here:

[mzmolly]

"Blaming Al Gore - The Latest Crime of the Stolen Election~ Nancy Kuhn"

"Had the Gore campaign instead chosen to dispute the purging of legal voters who were illegally denied their right to vote on Election Day, this would not have added any votes to the vote totals. Rather, it would have blocked any attempt to count the legal votes that had been cast on Election Day and not counted because the 72 hour deadline would have passed - and once that deadline passed, the campaign had no recourse.

The Gore campaign filed its election protests in order to enforce Florida's clear election law, which calls for hand counts when the number of uncounted votes would change the outcome of the election - which was clearly the case in this election dispute.

Let's also remember that it was the Bush campaign that first ran to Federal court to block these legal handcounts, because they knew that if all of the votes were counted, Al Gore would win. This fact was subsequently proved true by the NORC ballot count of the uncounted Florida ballots."

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