Recounts? Count the votes and see what the people of the state actually want? Isn't that democracy?
The fact that thousands of voters were purged from the rolls shows that the Rethuglicans f***ed with Florida.
And the exact meaning was that if they did the recount, Bush would have LOST and they would have had to deal with the thousands of voters taken off the rolls when they are not criminals 95-5% Gore voters. They knew if they did that, it would cause "irrepairable damage to petitioner Bush"