Man, I dislike writing from my yahoo addy - my last post didn't include
the quote from Kakki that I had posted along with my reply....weird. (and
posts aren't showing up in my yahoo mailbox in a timely or sequential
manner either - what a pain.) So here's what I sent, because for some
reason the whole thing didn't show up last time. ;-)
Kakki wrote:
>From what I heard on NPR, many of the people who double-punched had
already put their ballots in the ballot box. When they asked for a new
ballot to re-do it, the person overseeing that polling place could not, by
law, give them another ballot once the original ballot went in the box.
The overseer is not allowed by law to open up the ballot box and take the
"bad" ballots out. It's easy to say let everyone re-vote but truly you
must consider that some people would change their votes now that they know
how the election is turning out. It's would be giving an unfair advantage
no matter how noble the intention and it would set bad precedent legally.
Hi Kakki!
I never said a word about a re-vote or about people casting more than one
ballot. Maybe I didn't make myself clear in relaying the experiences of an
"offical" counter in the state of Oregon. First off, this was a person who
only saw the ballots after the fact, not while people were in the booths
or putting them in the ballot box. She was telling us about when they did
hand counts of these double punched ballots. It was her experience that
they always found numbers of ballots where when a double punch was made,
that the voter had taken the ballot out of the machine in the booth,
trying to correct the mistake they made on their own, marked their
preference by circling or underlining their intention or ex-ing out the
punch made in error. These are the types of things she said that show up
in a hand count of the intial vote. She also was telling about the machine
errors found in a hand count that are being talked about on CNN and other
channels. Like said, in Oregon, in the hand count process, when the
counters can clearly see the desired intent of that voter's ballot, their
vote is added accordingly to the tally. (Has anyone heard how the 19,000
thrown out ballots are being physically handled??)
Please forgive any misunderstanding for not explaining further in my
intial post(s).
Penny
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