At 10:51 PM -0500 11/8/00, George@Orwellian.Org wrote:
The ballot layout was illegal and resulted in a statistically verifiable set of erroneous votes for Bucanun. This is particularly galling to the voting victims, since many are Jewish.
The ballot form was used in past elections, CNN reported today. The ballot was published in newspapers, to let people familiarize themselves with its form. And the head of the voting commission, who approved the ballot's final form, is a Democrat. Ballots are often of different forms. Sometimes a mechanical punch is used, sometimes a Number 2 pencil, sometimes a pen. There cannot be a re-vote of the County, or even of the entire State, as this would distort the forces acting on the electorate in a way never seen before. The Palm County voters would know _they_ would be electing the next president. Billions of dollars would be spent trying to buy each and every voter. And there is no precedent for using "statistics" by Democrat consultants to propose that votes be Buchanan be assigned to Gore. So Gore won't get those votes, and there won't be a County-wide revote. (If there is, I'll help in rigging the dynamite truck .) --Timothy McMay -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.