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In article <3A0DC31F.D2FB3A99@prism.gatech.edu>,
Akash Patel  <gte383j@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
>Alexander Gilman Carver wrote:
>
>> So what is your opinion, then, if the ballot is deemed to be illegal
>> under Florida law?  That was another issue brought up recently.
>> The law says that the holes should be on the right edge of the page
>> and the item being voted on should be on the left page.  The right
>> page should be blank.  This ballot was not that way.
>
>check your sources, under what i read of the FL law the boxes on a PAPER
>ballot must be to the right of the names.  These ballots are considered
>machine ballots since they are counted by machines.  

You need to read more Fla law.  I've already posted URLs, but i'll recap.
On paper ballots, the order must be the 2 major party candidates, followed
by minor candidates.  
( http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0101/SEC191.HTM&Title=->2000->Ch0101->Section%20191 )

Machine ballots must match the written ballot's older as close as possible
( http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0101/SEC27.HTM&Title=->2000->Ch0101->Section%2027 
paragraph 3).  

Now, regardless of whether the holes must be on this side or that side,
the order of the ballot in palm beach was Bush, Buchanan, Gore.  That's
against the law.

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