In <4.3.0.20001108034928.016a6820@mail.well.com>, on 11/08/00 at 02:49 AM, Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> said:
http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/SummaryRpt.asp?ElectionDate=11/7/00&RACE=PRE
The numbers have changed giving Bush a larger lead: Bush/Cheney(REP) 2,909,135 48.9% +1784 Gore/Lieberman(DEM) 2,907,351 48.9% Browne/Olivier(LIB) 15,658 0.3% Nader/LaDuke(GRE) 94,479 1.6% Harris/Trowe(SWP) 551 0.0% Hagelin/Goldhaber(LAW) 2,240 0.0% Buchanan/Foster(REF) 16,962 0.3% McReynolds/Hollis(SPF) 618 0.0% Phillips/Frazier(CPF) 1,347 0.0% Moorehead/La Riva(WWP) 1,728 0.0% Total 5,950,069 100.0% No numbers available on Absentee Ballots which in FL are hand counted*. A recount has been called for. NOTE: In FL you are given a 2 sided ballot there are broken arrows next to each candidates name ( <== == ). In the voting booth you are provided with a black felt tip pen. To select your candidate you fill in the blank space to complete the arrow. When you are finished there is an OCR machine onto of a large box at the entrance to the polling place. You tear off a stub on the ballot, hand it to the person manning the OCR machine, then you feed the ballot into the machine which automatically tallies your vote and deposits the ballot into the box below. An interesting side note, on presenting my voter registration card I was asked for my Drivers License. I asked the attendant why she needed it. Her response was that it was required by law to present a photoID. I asked here what would happen if I didn't have one. She said that I would not be able to vote. I did not go into detail if it had to be a state ID or any photoID would work but I was left with the impression that only a state ID would be accepted. There was also some dirty politics here in FL with the various news networks. For those who are not aware FL has 2 time zones. Everything east of Tallahasse is Eastern, Tallahasse west is Central. The news media was very quick to claim FL as a victory for Gore and were broadcasting this before the polls closed in the western half of the state. One has to wonder if this did not have an adverse effect on voter turnout in the panhandle which historically is very conservative (Joe Scarboro (R) ran unopposed). I voted around 6:30pm and I am quite happy to know that my vote has had such a profound influence on this election. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger Consulting Data Security & Cryptology Consulting Programming, Networking, Analysis PGP for OS/2: http://www.openpgp.net/pgp.html E-Secure: http://www.openpgp.net/esecure.html ---------------------------------------------------------------