CDR: Re: A successful lawsuit means Gore wins!
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.
At 11:03 PM -0500 11/8/00, George@Orwellian.Org wrote:
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.
Earth to George: that the ballots were discarded does not mean anything for the vote total already reported. Those 19,000 ballots, if this is true, will simply vanish into the great black hole of defective ballots (more than one vote per category, torn, etc.). So? --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- 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.
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