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Article #859Re: Supreme Court halts Florida vote count: A black day for American democracy
From: MWSmith
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:44
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:44
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On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 04:37:26 GMT, David Jensen <david@dajensen-family.com> wrote: >Well, I think that the law says all the votes that can be counted >according to the criteria in the statute. > >Good ballot procedures should: > >(1) not allow ambiguous votes. >(2) not allow multiple votes for the same seat. >(3) not allow a seat to be forgotten. >(4) leave a highly reliable audit trail. > >We cannot fix the past, but we can certainly avoid repeats. #3 is wrong. The "undervotes" were votes for "none of the above". These people voted in other races, but not for President because there is no space (or punch point) for "none of the above". Mike Smith
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fa03c,b1da3fd7c2453373 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa03c,public X-Google-Thread: fd321,b1da3fd7c2453373 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd321,public X-Google-Thread: 109097,b1da3fd7c2453373 X-Google-Attributes: gid109097,public X-Google-Thread: 10c449,b1da3fd7c2453373 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c449,public X-Google-Thread: f765b,b1da3fd7c2453373 X-Google-Attributes: gidf765b,public X-Google-Thread: f8dda,13cdbfdc94512e1d X-Google-Attributes: gidf8dda,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-19 03:44:01 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!supernews.com!cabal10.airnews.net!news.airnews.net!cabal14.airnews.net!news.airnews.net!cabal1.airnews.net!news-f.iadfw.net!usenet From: MWSmith <mws@wt.net> Newsgroups: mn.general,wi.general,alt.rush-limbaugh,pa.politics,dfw.politics,houston.general Subject: Re: Supreme Court halts Florida vote count: A black day for American democracy Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 05:44:38 -0600 Organization: Somewhat clueless. I did buy win95. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3EF950B49BEB7C98.AA241107AB02C3ED.24F68721CAAA405C@lp.airnews.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: <91ag6tkp4v0mvvf6c3e8uj5k8oa10dfp0j@4ax.com> References: <john-0801012004290001@24-216-78-46.hsacorp.net> <3A5B2F6A.6270AF42@windriver.com> <john-0901011015410001@24-216-78-46.hsacorp.net> <Pine.OSF.3.96.1010109160421.28248D-100000@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu> <6M_86.1537$KE.70317@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <3a65a920$0$46005$272ea4a1@news.execpc.com> <945alf$l6u$1@node17.cwnet.frontiernet.net> <slrn96d4mo.jbp.jdege@jdege.visi.com> <3A679438.B418D256@earthlink.net> <hrgf6tgdphrmubgcf1e3ffcidq9qmrhpo4@4ax.com> Reply-To: spammers will be hunted down and deleted <mws@wt.net> Abuse-Reports-To: abuse at airmail.net to report improper postings NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library1-aux.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Time: Fri Jan 19 05:40:43 2001 NNTP-Posting-Host: !`TdX1k-X)CXcZHFV%u.E>NO) (Encoded at Airnews!) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent a1.7/32.534