Al Gore, "Every Vote Counts, and Every Election Matters"

[kster]

On The Issues...

http://www.issues2002.org/2008/Al_Gore_Principles_+_Values.htm

Al Gore:

I love this country deeply, and even I always look to the future with optimism and hope, it's worth pausing for a moment, to take note of two very important lessons from four years ago. The first lesson is this: Take it from me-every vote counts. In our democracy, every vote has power. And never forget: that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. Let's make sure that this time every vote is counted. Let's make sure not only that the Supreme Court does not pick the next president, but also that this president is not the one who picks the next Supreme Court. The second lesson is this: What happens in a presidential election matters. A lot. The outcome profoundly affects the lives of all 293 million Americans - and people in the rest of the world too. The choice of who is president affects your life and your family's future. These challenges we now confront are not Democratic or Republican challenges; they're American challenges that we must overcome together.




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Al Gore:

Don’t set aside votes just because it’s hard to count.

I agree with something Governor Bush said last night. We need to come together as a country to make progress. But how can we best achieve that? Our country will be stronger, not weaker, if our next president assumes office following a process that most Americans believe is fair. In all our hands now rest the future of America’s faith in our self-government. The American people have shown dignity, restraint and respect as the process has moved forward.
This is America. When votes are cast, we count them. We don’t arbitrarily set them aside because it’s too difficult to count them.

Two hundred years from now, when future Americans study this presidential election, let them learn that Americans did everything they could to ensure that all citizens who voted had their votes counted. Let them learn that democracy was ultimately placed ahead of partisan politics in resolving a contested election. Let them learn that we were indeed a country of laws.
Source: Speech on primetime national television Nov 27, 2000



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AL Gore:

Offer to Bush: Hand count, then meet to show unity

"I propose a way to settle this matter with finality and justice.
First, we should complete hand counts already begun in Palm Beach, Dade, & Broward Counties to determine the true intentions based on an objective evaluation of their ballots. Observers and participants from both parties should be present in every counting room as required under Florida law. If this happens, I will abide by the result, and I will take no legal action to challenge the result.
I am also prepared, if Gov. Bush prefers, to include in this recount all the counties in the entire state of Florida. I would also be willing to abide by that result. We believe the count can be completed within seven days of the time it starts.
Second, I propose that Gov. Bush and I meet personally, before the vote count is finished, not to negotiate, but to improve the tone of our dialogue in America.

Shortly after the results are known, we should both come together for another meeting to reaffirm our national unity.
Source: Statement by Al Gore on Florida recount Nov 15, 2000

Source: Gore interview with CNN’s John King Nov 29, 2000

http://www.issues2002.org/2008/Al_Gore_Principles_+_Values.htm


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[GregD]

1. thanks for the link

I was hoping this would turn up.

[Apollo11]

2. A man of principle

Let's all find ways to show our support for Al Gore! :patriot:

Sign the Live Earth Pledge: www.liveearthpledge.org

Then ask all your friends and family to sign it too! :-)

Visit Al's site www.algore.com and read his blog http://blog.algore.com

Sign the petitions at www.algore.org and www.draftgore.com

:kick:

[Peace Patriot]

3. In case you're wondering why Kster keeps interrupting candidate Gore in '00 with

this very recent election fraud report by Dan Rather at HD.net, it's because Rather has investigated and reported the REASON for all that mess in Florida in 2000: Sequoia (one of the big three election theft industry players) provided inferior, flawed paper for the punchcard ballots in Democratic areas in Florida '00, and did it knowingly and deliberately. One of the worker whistleblowers describes being told to destroy everything in the election warehouse with Sequoia or Boise Cascade's name on it, as the Florida debacle unfolded. Another whistleblower says Sequoia did it in order to foster a new 'market' for their electronic voting machines (far more lucrative than real ballot systems). A third believes they did it to rig the election.

Rather's report is devastating. He also goes after ES&S--one of the biggest election theft industry players, along with its brethren corp, Diebold (which just changed its name to "Premier"). ES&S election theft machines are manufactured in sweatshops in Manila, in the Philippines. Rather presents another set of whistleblowers who felt troubled by the thousands of warped touchscreens manufactured for the U.S. election 'market.' And he also condemns optiscans, and points out that the Philippines itself banned their use, they were so unreliable. (They went back to paper ballots.)

Rather hits most of the main points--hard. He even talks about the "trade secret" programming in these machines.

It is an amazing program.

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A tangential issue: How do we go back to paper ballots without benefiting election theft player Boise Cascade, and destroying forests and our planet? Answer: hemp?