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Alexander Gilman Carver wrote:
> 
> 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.

I wouldn't be surprised if a good number of people actually didn't vote that day
and would vote if they had a reelection. They'd come to the reelection voting
for one or the other, and, from what I've heard, that would help Bush. I
wouldn't mind if that actually happened, as I voted for Bush, but I still don't
think it's fair.
 
> That would be the fair thing to do.  However, this isn't going to happen
> because we don't live in an ideal nation.

Wouldn't an ideal country be wonderful? :P
 
> 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.

I agree it was stupid for them to put the ballot like that, but that's beside
the point now. We can't change the past. It's not going to help anyone to whine
about it and try to get a revote. I think it'd be even worse to have a revote in
the county than having many voters blow their vote.

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Nathan Owens
Georgia Tech, Atlanta
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