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NDee wrote:
> 
> In git.general Ryan Thompson <news@flamtap.org> wrote:
> 
> > First, it's "affect" not "effect." Second, if you're too stupid to follow
> > directions or too stubborn to ask for help if you're confused about the
> > ballot, then you deserve to have your vote screwed up. (And the Democratic
> > party deserves you :)
> 
> I will agree that Affect is a verb, and Effect is a noun.  Webster's is
> either wrong or relying upon some bizarre archaic interpretation.

This isn't archaic at all. If Webster's is wrong, then so are many of the other
English dictionaries in the world. If that would be true, English must be wrong.
Since English is not wrong (it's defined by itself), Webster's is not wrong.
Webster's Dictionary is a well-respected dictionary.
 
> Secondly, they showed the ballots on TV, and I can see how the mistake
> would be made.  It was a two page deal, capable of being folded down the
> center.  It looked like...
> 
> _____________________________
> 
>         BUSH      ----------->  X  ________________________________
> 
> _____________________________   X  <---------   BUCHANAN
> 
>         GORE      ----------->  X  ________________________________
> 
> _____________________________   X  <---------   BROWNE
> 
>         NADER     ----------->  X  ________________________________
> ________________________________
> 
> ...where you had to punch a hole through the X.  Since Buchanan and Browne
> were on a separate page, I could see how someone could look at the page,
> see BUSH first with an X, and then see GORE second and mark the second
> X.  Bear in mind that the arrows weren't so big and names weren't so
> small... had party and VP squeezed in there too.

Many may have messed up. It doesn't matter, though. It's the responsibility of
the voter to know _exactly_ who they vote for. The arrow are there for a reason;
USE THEM!! If the voter is to inobservant that he/she doesn't notice the order,
then he/she shouldn't be voting because he/she probably didn't prepare
him/herself well enough. It's the voter's tough luck that he/she screwed
him/herself over. Personally, I can't see how that many voters voted for the
wrong person.

-- 
Nathan Owens
Georgia Tech, Atlanta
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