8 Nov
2000
8 Nov
'00
11:08 p.m.
Wow, NBC reports 19,000 Palm Beach County ballots were discarded because _two_ holes were punched, presumably by people confused by the illegally formatted ballot. Buchanun received three times the votes expected.
This _NY Times_ article has a little more detail: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/politics/AP-ELN-Florida-Ballot-Confusion.htm...
: Florida law specifies that voters mark an X in the blank space : to the right of the name of the candidate they want to vote for. : : Jeff Liggio, a lawyer for county Democrats, called the ballot : illegal. "Right means right, doesn't it? The state law says right. : It doesn't mean left," he said.