🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 04:12:26 GMT, im_2_ugly <im_2_ugly@my-deja.com>
wrote:

>You sicken me. You traitors sicken me.
>

You tell them! How can we POSSIBLY be free unless everybody thinks the
same way (i.e. filled with venom and intolerence and ready to severly
beat dissenters and petty criminals) as you do?

Here's an interesting article about punch ballots from the Miami
Herald:

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http://www.herald.com/content/archive/news/elect2000/decision/035445.htm

A federal report issued 12 years ago recommended abandoning the
controversial punch card ballots widely used in Florida, citing
inaccuracies and uncertainties in their tallies, and delivered a clear
warning of the ``hanging chad'' problem that has vexed this year's
presidential race.

The National Bureau of Standards report, conducted because of concerns
over ``inaccuracy or fraud in computerized vote-tallying,'' chronicled
instances of election confusion across the country caused by punch
card technology, including a 1984 election in Palm Beach County, now
the epicenter of the presidential election controversy.

The 1984 Palm Beach County race, which was recorded on punch card
ballots, wound up in state court over the issue of ``hanging chads,''
or partially punched ballot holes, and the difficulties that
computerized ballot counters have in interpreting them. The same
ballot system was in use this year in Palm Beach County.

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