At 11:45 AM 11/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, let's look at that. In the '96 election, 14,000 or so ballots were
>discarded as "spoiled" because of precisely the same problem. Given the
>voter turnout in that election, 19,000 discards in this election is really
>not different than that of '96.
did they have the same kind of screwy ballot arrangement in 1996?
whether they did or not ... is this volume of spoiled ballots typical
across the other 66 counties?
there is a way to see if it were just general incompetence ... by, seeing
what the double punches were ... now, if these spoiled ballots tended to
distribute their two punches all around .... say, told to vote for one only
(for some local races) but, voted for two ... then, one would not suggest
that ballot confusion led to the vote count problems ...
but, if the two were for two presidential candidates ... buchanan and gore
for example ... i think it is much harder to wisk this spoil away due to
dumb voters
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