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Michael Bode wrote:
> Yes that's an indirect system. But I remember there was a dispute on
> which votes were to be counted and which were to be discarded. AFAIK
> they were ordered by court to stop counting as long as Bush was in
> front.

It rather reminded me of the sport of curling, where the players
sweep the ice with brooms in order to divert the path of a heavy
stone. It should come as no surprise that in gathering tens of
millions of votes there are breakdowns and difficulties that cause
some votes to be lost or miscounted. In an election as close as
this one was, those votes appear to disproportionally affect the
results. Basically, the vote was as close to a tie as could be, so
either man could legitimately have been elected. Now that one is in
office, he will be judged by his performance, and reelected or not.