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Article #2199Re: Supreme Kangaroos join election theft
From: Merlin Dorfman
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 05:33
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 05:33
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MWSmith (mws@wt.net) wrote:
: On 26 Nov 2000 00:22:17 GMT, Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@rahul.net> wrote:
: > But Florida (and Texas) law require that a ballot be counted
: >if it is clear what the voter's intent was. Nobody is trying to
: >read the voters' minds, just count a ballot when the intent is
: >clear but the machine rejected it.
: Bullshit, Merlin.
: If the voter does his or her job correctly, the machine will count
: their vote correctly; every time.
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.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,fb0f0f2c5a524b4b X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,fb0f0f2c5a524b4b X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-Thread: 103916,e22a4eebc6d4d189 X-Google-Attributes: gid103916,public X-Google-Thread: 1098dc,fb0f0f2c5a524b4b X-Google-Attributes: gid1098dc,public X-Google-Thread: 10a12a,fb0f0f2c5a524b4b X-Google-Attributes: gid10a12a,public X-Google-Thread: 109097,e22a4eebc6d4d189 X-Google-Attributes: gid109097,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-11-28 21:33:54 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!bignews.mediaways.net!easynews!feedwest.news.agis.net!agis!news.mainstreet.net!bug.rahul.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!dorfman.a2i!dorfman From: Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@rahul.net> Newsgroups: tx.general,houston.general,miami.general,dc.general,ny.general,ca.general Subject: Re: Supreme Kangaroos join election theft Followup-To: tx.general,houston.general,miami.general,dc.general,ny.general,ca.general Date: 29 Nov 2000 05:33:37 GMT Organization: a2i network Lines: 25 Message-ID: <9024fh$bv2$1@samba.rahul.net> References: <3a1fa9dc.6994551@NNTP.ix.netcom.com> <8vgpfu$q2d$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3a1d0055.2021024@NNTP.ix.netcom.com> <8vn2g1$6r7$1@samba.rahul.net> <00C5BB04FA5736E4.0CF0E6DC5E8B1856.6BF175F9648631A2@lp.airnews.net> <8vpl3p$lms$1@samba.rahul.net> <1697003D02ADAE97.97C4D10C33B9C935.2B24344BDD6CEA3A@lp.airnews.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: waltz.rahul.net NNTP-Posting-User: dorfman X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]