John,
Please fix your email program. As Gord noted, it is sending VERY long
lines. Every paragraph is a line that is 100's of characters long. Please
keep your lines below 80 characters.
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 06:18:37AM -0800, John D. Giorgis wrote:
> Additionally, many Americans (hard as this is to believe)
> intentionally spoil their ballot by double-punching as a way of
> protesting the two-party system in this country. In 1996, the same
> county had 15,000 spoiled ballots. This year, Cook County, IL (home
> of Chicago, and Bill Daley, Gore's campaign chairman) had 130,000
> spoiled ballots.
This number is vague and meaningless without further information. Where
did you get your information, and are there any more details?
1) What is the number as a percentage of voters? (Obviously Cook county
has a much higher population)
2) Does this "spoiled" count include problems in the judge section of the ballot, or
does it only include errors in the President part of the ballot?
I voted in Cook county. The Presidential page of the ballot was MUCH
clearer than Palm Beach county. But Cook county has an insane number of
judges on the ballot (40 or 50, I think) and we have to vote yes or no
(approval or disapproval) for each judge. This part was on a "butterfly"
ballot, and while the choices were clear if you looked carefully, the
sheer number of votes required on the butterfly part could lead to
errors due to voter fatigue. During voting, I had to take a 30 second
break and rub my eyes before I could finish voting for the judges.
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"Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.com/
