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In git.announce Pianoman <gte990u@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
|Problem: if you give them the chance to change their vote, and some will, you
|have to give the whole country the chance to vote. If the Democrats go ahead
|with litigation, the Republicans are sure to go after a few other states where
|the votes were very close, Wisonsin being one of them I believe. All that we can
|really do is have a recount, and tell people they actually have to use their
|brains to think when they're voting.

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.

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.

I'm looking over my ballot from Broward County (the county south of Palm
Beach) and it is markedly different from the ballot that was designed
for this election used by the Palm Beach voting districts.  The Broward
ballot has a single page for the Presidential candidates.  It is located
on the left side, numbers on the right edge of the page next to the
punch holes, and nothing is on the right side of the punch holes.  No
interleaving of entries, no ambiguity.  It also follows the ballot
design requirements set forth in State law, the specific point being that
the punch holes are to be located to the right of the ballot entry.
In the case of the Palm Beach ballot (which, yes, was somehow approved
by the election board of Palm Beach), there were punch holes located
to the left of some ballot entries.