Re: Supreme Kangaroos join election theft

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From: Dr. Wayne A. Simon
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:48

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not the way it happenned, you paint a very false picture.

Professor Vonroach wrote:

> On 29 Nov 2000 05:33:37 GMT, Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@rahul.net> wrote:
>
> >    To paraphrase somebody or other, "Depends on what the
> >meaning of 'correctly' is."  If you make a nice clean punch,
> >and make sure nothing is hanging on the back of the ballot,
> >the odds are pretty good that the machine will count it
> >correctly.  But not 100%.  And nowhere in the voting
> >instructions does it say to check that the back of the ballot
> >is clear.  (But it will from now on...)  If you don't make a
> >clean punch and don't check the back of the ballot, then the
> >machine may reject your ballot.  Thus a manual count is
> >always at least as accurate as a machine count, and may be
> >more accurate.
>
> A rather biased evaluation when millions of votes are cast.  There are
> many scenarios - ticket splitting, not voting in a selected race. Try
> this one, you intend to vote for Bush, accidentally punch Gore's chad,
> then see your mistake and go back and attempt to vote for Bush and
> leave a `dimpled' chad.  Ballot will be counted by machine for Gore in
> all probability, or if hand counted, folks in Miami will conclude that
> your intention was to vote for Gore and you almost made a mistake, but
> then punched the right chad.  Determinations of a voter's intention
> are pure unadulterated bull shit.
> The voter must know how to vote, take some pains to do it correctly,
> then let the machine tabulate the results and the chips fall where
> they may.
> Summary - GW Bush won in Florida by almost a thousand votes not
> counting the military votes that were not counted.

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