CDR: Re: Florida reject stats

[Ken Brown]

George at orwellian.org posted:

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> http://foxnews.com/election_night/111600/uncounted.sml
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> #
> #    Some counties had startlingly large numbers of ballots that
> #    weren't counted. All three of these used punchcards:
> #
> #    - In Miami-Dade County, 28,601 ballots were not counted in the
> #    presidential race, out of about 654,044 cast.
> #
> #    - In Palm Beach County, home of the controversial "butterfly
> #    ballot," 29,702 votes weren't counted out of 462,888 total.
> #
> #    - In Jacksonville and surrounding Duval County, 26,909 votes
> #    went uncounted out of 291,545 cast.
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At last someone mentioned the numbers! 

I make that about 4.4% uncounted in Dade (top of the normal range I
guess), 6.4% in Palm Beach (bad) and 9.2% in Duval (pathetic). The
voters of those counties have every right to complain. Whether or not
that should effect the outcome of your nationwide election is, I
suppose, up to your constitution. (Of which my own limited
I-am-neither-a-lawyer-nor-an-American understanding agrees with  the
entity posting as "Jonathan"'s:

jonathan at screaming.org wrote:

> d) As with (c) above, the US popular vote is statistically a draw--but
> we have a mechanism to deal with this event: it's called the Electoral
> College. As defined in its duties by the Constitution, the delegates
> are to meet on Dec 18th IIRC, and there is no provision for them
> showing up late. In fact, IIRC, he who gets the majority of them
> present wins, and "them" need not be all there could be--just all of
> them there that day.
> 
> e) As with (c) and (d) above, if Florida can't get their Poop in a
> Pile by Dec. 18th, then they don't get to play. Tough shit. (And IMHO,
> it serves them right; they've had a demonstrably fucked process for at
> least two terms, and haven't fixed it. Maybe this will give the People
> of Florida the impetus to get with the ballgame the next time around.)