> I think Florida has been set. When the networks announced calling florida a "toss-up", Bush was ahead by 200,000. Then a few trucks full of ballots went missing. And the race tightened signfigantly.

Actually, I don't think it was set-up on purpose. Mistakes happen, and I think this was one of them.

> People are claiming they should give Buchanan votes to Gore because the ballot was confusing. Sorry, but it's their own fault if so... which I doubt.

They do have a reason behind this. In one county, they made the font on the ballots bigger because there are so many retirees who live there. Officials thought it would be easier for them to read bigger font. However, this made is so that the boxes did not match up, and they have reason to believe that voters marked the Buchanan box because it was near the Gore box. Yes, it's their (meaning the election officials in that county) own fault, but should a whole county worth of voters pay for the consequences? I don't think so.

> They claimed to have found a lockbox containing thousands of ballots... and those, suspiciously heavily Gore.
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> Some now claim that the number of Gore votes was heavily underweighted do to "computer error."

Most computer errors are due to the users, not the actual computers.

> The Democrats can't stand to lose after coming so close. They're pulling out all the stops. Gore is sending tons of lawyers to try to dispute enough ballots to give him the election.

Actually, Bush is also sending lawyers to Florida.

Ell"Starting to get fascinated by this whole mess"myruh