I'd like to point out that the actual head of elections in the state, Butterworth, is the chair of Gore's election committee in the state. The recounts have generally gone Gore's way, so you could make the opposite assumption here if you want.

IMHO, there is little or no deliberate cheating, just a shitty human process that requires a bit of peace to complete. And of course peace is the one thing they ain't going to get. =)

Personally, I find it all pretty amusing. When things get edgy, the fringe crowd starts squealing. The most remarkable data that will come from this will be just how shrill people who take a process like this to heart can get. I've got three close friends (2 Ds, 1 R) who I've put on delete-without-reading mode for email because I'm sick of the belly-aching.

Thanks to the possibility of Electoral College Representatives being able to secretly vote and them being able to vote whichever way they please, we literally won't know who the President-Elect is till January 6th. Which is unfortunately my birthday and amusingly Epiphany.

Obligatory useless perl code (like the elections, perl is a constant source of suprise and amusement):

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;seek DATA,0,0;print()while(<DATA>)__DATA__
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$you = new YOU;
honk() if $you->love(perl)