Note that if a voter figured out that he or
she made mistake during the voting process and
got a new ballot, the old ballot
goes into the discard pile. As it
turns out a large majority of the 19,000
discards consist of discards from folks who got
to vote again. Very few are "absolute"
discards.
This fact has been reported, but barely.
>From the state of confusion
Al
Reg Jordan 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.
>
> As I said earlier, these ballots were designed and approved by Democrats,
> distributed to and approved by each Party, distributed by mail to each
> registered voter, and posted at each polling place. Assistance was available
> at each polling place for voters with questions. What more can you do?
>
> And yes, the 19,000 who punched two holes are in my opinion, incompetent.
>
> reg
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dennis roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Reg Jordan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 10:30 AM
> Subject: Re: Stats on Palm Beach votes
>
> > At 03:51 PM 11/9/00 -0500, Reg Jordan wrote:
> >
> > >Did it cost Gore votes? Doesn't matter. Incompetence is not a defense.
> >
> > on what basis can you conclude that the 19,000 invalidated ballots were
> due
> > to incompetence ... this seems to be your supposition ...
> >
> > what if you saw a table that showed that the percentage of invalidated
> > ballots in palm beach county was so much higher than any other county ...
> > to be clearly an outlier ... would you then think that it was just the
> > stupidity of the voters ... or, some ELSE was going on that mushroomed
> this
> > problem?
> >
> > these are the data i want to see ...
> >
> > county .... votes cast ... invalidated ballots ... % of total invalidated
> >
> >
> >
>
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