CounterCoup is one of a number of left wing groups that wants George Bush to simply step aside if he wins Florida because, “A candidate has won the popular vote but lost the White House.”
But it is false to claim that Al Gore has won the popular vote. In fact there are close to two million outstanding absentee ballots that have to still be counted around the country, and Gore’s slim lead in the popular voting could easily vanish (though aside states such as New Mexico and Florida, the absentee ballots are unlikely to change election results in those states).
The other amazing thing is the claim on CounterCoup that “over 19,000 Gore voters’ ballots were thrown away.” Actually those ballots had more than one person chosen as president and as the media finally reported, similar numbers of ballots had to be discarded in the 1996 presidential election as well. Strange that I don’t remember liberals and leftists calling that election a fraud.