Re: Stats on Palm Beach votes

[Jerry Dallal]

Brenda Hutson wrote:
> 
> 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.


Set me straight.  There must be two types of discards,
those discarded before the counting and those discarded
or discounted because there was trouble counting them.

Are you saying they can't tell the difference?


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