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Alexander Gilman Carver wa hanashite imashita:
>It's true that a lot of people would change their vote.  Even if we were to
>throw out the entire election on a national level and start over, there would
>be vote changes.  However, if you were to throw out all votes everywhere, you
>will have more people voting plus they are going to vote the same way since
>all results have been disqualified.  Granted the minority candidates will most
>likely not receive votes the second time around but there will certainly be
>a show of force as everyone casts for Bush or Gore.  The votes weren't that
>far apart and I don't think they'd drift any farther during a new election.
>People know who they want in office and they're going to vote for that person.

>That would be the fair thing to do.  However, this isn't going to happen
>because we don't live in an ideal nation.

This would not be the fair thing to do. There are always ballots thrown
out in every election for one thing or another; there is no reason to
allow a county full of idiots to revote just because they're
illiterate. 

You are given a chance to vote; if you screw it up and turn your ballot in
anyway, then too bad for you. You can't allow a county to revote for
thrown-out ballots and not others; and they're surely not going to let the
whole nation revote, so it simply won't happen. The best they can do, is
to redesign the ballots for next time.
 
>I don't deny that some people simply didn't pay attention when casting their
>votes in Palm Beach.  However, we're neglecting the possibility that some
>of those people really did get confused by the ballot and, thus, their votes
>are not being counted properly.

They should have asked. Obviously, there were arrows pointing to the
correct holes[0], so if they were confused why Gore didn't point to the
second hole when he was the second person listed on the left, they should
have asked someone to clarify. It's no one's fault but their own.

Bottom line is, you can't give to one group and not give to all--All the
people who had ballots thrown out, no matter what county of what
state. That would be completely unfair.

[0] http://a388.g.akamai.net/f/388/21/15m/www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/s
tories/11/09/election.president/large.ballot.ap.jpg

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