In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald Burrill) wrote:
#N.H. Public Radio aired part of an interview with a girl who, voting
#for the first time, realized (or suspected) afterward that she had
#mis-punched (or whatever) the ballot. She consulted one of the polling
#place attendants, who told her that the ballot was, indeed, a vote for
#Buchanan (the girl had intended to vote for Gore). She asked for a
#replacement ballot (which according to a message printed on the ballot,
#or so NPR reported, was the appropriate thing to do), and the attendant
#not only refused to provide a replacement but took the marked ballot out
#of the girl's hand, put it with the ballots that had been turned in, and
#told her that she'd voted and it was too late to change it.
# [That is, of course, my recollection of the event as it was reported,
#and it is imaginable that I have mis-remembered some detail or other.
#Skeptics can consult the NHPR (or NPR) archives to find the segment that
#was broadcast, I think Thursday this week but it may have been Wednesday.
#I believe, but do not know for certain, that this was a segment aired by
#National Public Radio, not just the New Hampshire stations.]
Yes, I heard the same report here in Texas, and Don's recollection is as
mine. I am sure that this is archived in RealAudio on NPR's website; it
would have been Wednesday or possibly Thursday, and was on either
Morning Edition or All Things Considered, for anyone who wants to listen.
Florida law would have required the election judge to give her a new
ballot.
http://www.npr.org/
bill
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