"P.G.Hamer" wrote:
>
> Rich Ulrich wrote:
>
> > I don't think that ANY re-vote is pragmatically feasible.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > Anyway, ignoring the 19,000 double-punched ballots
>
> In an ideal world, a pragmatically defensible option would
> be to split the double-punched votes resulting from the poor
> [and illegal?] ballot paper design evenly between the parties.
I would go further and suggest that double-punched votes resulting from
poor ballot paper design should ideally be split in proportion to the
votes otherwise obtained by the parties in question.
-Robert Dawson
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