DRUDGE REPORT 2001®
**World Exclusive**
**Must Credit DRUDGE REPORT**
A
vote-by-vote review of untallied ballots in the 2000 Florida presidential
election commissioned by the nation's main media outlets shows Al Gore edged
ahead of George W. Bush "under all the scenarios for counting all undervotes and
overvotes statewide," the DRUDGE REPORT has
learned.
APCNNNYTWASHPOSTLATIMESNEWSDAYCHICAGOTRIB will splash in Monday
editions an election review which will ignite total controversy during a time of
war, publishing sources told DRUDGE on Sunday.
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Bush would
have narrowly prevailed in the partial recounts sought by Gore, but Gore could
have "reversed the outcome -- by the smallest of margins -- had he pursued and
gained a complete statewide recount," according to one interpretation of the
database compiled by the monstermedia consortium. [Each media outlet will
produce a news analysis based on the database product.]
Under any
standard that counted all disputed votes in Florida, Gore erased Bush's
advantage and emerged with a tiny lead that ranged from 42 to 171 votes.
Gore followed a legal strategy that would have led to his defeat even if
it had not been rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court, according to one
interpretation set for publication.
Gore sought a recount of a small
number of the state's disputed ballots while the review indicates his only
chance lay in a course he advocated publicly but did not pursue in court _ a
full statewide recount of untallied votes!
Gore took a 171-vote lead when
the consortium tried to recreate how each county said it would handle the
court-ordered statewide recount, and a 42-vote lead under what was called the
Palm Beach standard.
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All outcomes were closer than even the
narrow 537 votes of Bush's official victory.
It would be impossible to
interpret the survey results as definitive, with such narrow margins in all
directions.
BIG MEDIA FLORIDA
RECOUNT: GORE TOPPED BUSH IF ALL UNDER/OVER VOTES COUNTED; LEGAL STRATEGY
DESTROYED CHANCES
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