Should the hand counts in a few South Florida Counties determine the outcome of the State and, therefore, the nation? Did a Circuit Court judge condone these hand counts or did he merely say that until the question is before me it’s your money, do what you want with it, nobody’s stopping you? Should we hand count these three heavily Democratic counties by themselves or, as the Vice President suggests, apply the hand count method to all 67 counties in Florida? If we do that, how about other states? How about the entire nation, for that matter? Wake me up for the Chicago recount.

If it isn’t absolutely illegal, it’s at least very arrogant, for two presidential candidates to get together, as Al Gore and Joe Lieberman suggest, to decide how a State might conduct its business, interpret its laws or conduct its recounts? Makes you wonder how much interference has already gone on in the State of Florida, doesn't it?

And is anyone at all being allowed the opportunity of “re-voting” truly legal or constitutional? Without all of us extended the same privilege, it’s certainly revolting.

Isn’t the term “hand counting” something of a misnomer when the decisions are made behind people’s eyeballs? Does watching hands move really tell anyone anything? Isn’t it logical to challenge every card that goes in what any observer feels is the wrong pile? What happens when challenges are limited in order to save time?

How many people feel that we should just throw the whole thing out and start over? Hasn’t this flip of a coin that landed on its edge taught anybody anything? Was this 50-50 split the result of two tightly competitive perfect politicians or the result of a “none of the above” vote and, perhaps, even dive bomb balloting? Could Jesse Ventura have swept them both into oblivion? How many people would change their vote if given the chance? How many times should we recount votes in a vacuum?

Are obvious election abuses, some that have been around for years, simply to be swept under the rug when this is over? Will we forget about reforms that might allow military people to cast absentee ballots from ships and islands without an approved postmark? Will the entire nation vote with the same machines or the same hand ballots? Will the media keep its mouth shut until the polls are closed and results counted? Is it legal to keep polls open an extra hour? Are deadlines real? Why do we vote on a Tuesday workday instead of the weekend? Will anybody be prosecuted for allowing prisoners to vote? And what if a warehouse full of keypunch machines shows up in Chicago or Cicero?

And what about the Electoral College? Is there another nation masquerading as a “democracy,” or really being one, that also has an Electoral College? Are its members corruptible? Or is this current debacle proof of how much an Electoral College is needed in a Republic that elects its representatives?

If there was no Electoral College, wouldn’t every State in the Union now be recounting its popular vote ballots? Chads across America.

Can the situation in Florida go on so long and be so unresolved that Florida is left out of the Electoral College vote? Could this be the ultimate Gore camp plan to gain the election? Would the Florida State Supreme Court allow this to happen, nullifying its 25 Electoral College votes?

What if the Electoral College deadlocks or stalemates? What if the States don’t make the December 12th deadline for Congress to certify their members? What if they can’t vote on December 18th? Would a Republican House of Representatives step in? Would that be fair? Would it be the current Congress or the newly elected Congress? What if the House votes “by electronic means” as they do so often, and what does that tell you about the government’s position on “machine counts?” Will the legal horde descend on the District of Corruption, claiming that the vote wasn’t done right? How many recounts will it take and will the Supreme Court be involved?

By the way, how do all the people against the New World Odor, all those from the Battle of Seattle, and everyone against new national registries, UN identification cards and bar codes stamped on foreheads—how do they feel about the Democrat’s argument that machine counts are no good? Isn’t there something of a contradiction involved here? Some new form of hypocrisy?