Yes, evidence suggests that it is more likely that the ballots thrown out
(primarily, but not exclusively, absentee ballots) would have trended
strongly republican or at least conservative.

However, since they weren't counted, we can never know for certain. Past
studies suggest that ~80% of absentee ballots tossed out would have gone for
Bush.

Steve Swartz



"sanjian" wrote in message
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Leslie Swartz wrote:
Ace:

Do your homework. Fact- not opinion, fact- is that eht so-called
"popular vote" was undecided. A statistical tie, more accurately.
We will *never* know who actually received the most votes, because:

1) Not all votes were counted. It's legal in most places to discard
votes if they won't tip the electoral scales. Therefore, in the
"Bush" states many Gore votes (and potential additional Bush votes)
were discarded, and vice versa.

The majority of which were military absentee ballots.