A consortium of news outlets, Including that bastion of liberalism, the Chicago Tribune, actually did the recount. Despite the dirty tricks, such as purging voter roles of legitimately registered voters and intentional back up in black precincts, the consortium found that Gore would have won in a statewide recount, but would have lost if just the counties that he requested had been recounted. This recount project was finished a week or so after 9/11 and no one wanted to throw our country into a constitutional quandry when we had just been attacked. The Bush people did nothing honest nor fair. Furthermore, , Bush’s election illegitimacy was mirrored by his lack of competency during his entire presidency.
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A consortium of news outlets, Including that bastion of liberalism, the Chicago Tribune, actually did the recount. Despite the dirty tricks, such as purging voter roles of legitimately registered voters and intentional back up in black precincts, the consortium found that Gore would have won in a statewide recount, but would have lost if just the counties that he requested had been recounted. This recount project was finished a week or so after 9/11 and no one wanted to throw our country into a constitutional quandry when we had just been attacked. The Bush people did nothing honest nor fair. Furthermore, , Bush’s election illegitimacy was mirrored by his lack of competency during his entire presidency.