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In article <SBtT5.24660$xd3.2032909@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>,
  "Kenneth Pangborn" <kenpangborn@earthlink.net> wrote:
>     Ah yes CARNACK the magnificent. ANY indentation ANYWHERE on the
ballot
> means it is a GORE vote! Oh look, the ballot is discolored, that
PROVES that
> the voter had the intent to vote for AL GORE!  Whjat will be thr RULE
today?

I always wonder if there are people who *really* believe that this is
what's happening.

It seems to me that if you have 8 (I think that's the number of pres
candidates in Florida) holes for president, and one of them is dimpled,
that's a vote for the person to whom the whole belongs. I read one
editorial in the tribune where the author talked about an experience
almost punching the wrong hole (dimpling the hole) then correctly
punching the right one. Again, if you're looking at the ballot, if
there's a dimple and a hole, hole counts, dimple doesn't.

I've not heard any credible claims that this isn't the vote counting
procedure.

I also think that it's highly unlikely that someone would start to push
a hole for president, then decide that no, they weren't going to vote
for president, but they would vote for county comptroller.

That both Bush and Gore are picking up votes from the recounts indicate
that there's probably an even judging standard. That Gore is picking up
more is a reflection of the voting populace being recounted.

And anyone who claims that if the situations were reversed the
arguments wouldn't be exactly the same (just from the opposite sides)
is either naive, a liar, or both.

-vp

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