Re: Polls: Errors on Prime Time - NOT AN ERROR

2000-11-15 Thread Bill Jefferys
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #not more than that -- the butterfly ballots gave 3K erroneous votes to #Buchanan, and took (probably) much of the 19K from Gore's total #because Bush's name was in the luckier position on the ballot. #(Florida state law favors those who

Re: Polls: Errors on Prime Time - NOT AN ERROR

2000-11-15 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:42:36 -0500, SSCHEINE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, the exiting polls got it right!!! Remember, a lot of people > left the polling booth thinking that they had voted for Gore, when they > had actually messed up their ballot. Based on who they thought that they > ha

Re: Polls: Errors on Prime Time - NOT AN ERROR

2000-11-15 Thread Thom Baguley
J. Williams wrote: > Are you saying that only Gore supporters could not figure out the > ballot? Plus, only Gore voters were too timid to ask for assistance > or for a new ballot? :-)) Could it be that they are complaining ex > post facto when confronted with an unpopular result? :-) Apparen

RE: Polls: Errors on Prime Time - NOT AN ERROR

2000-11-13 Thread Magill, Brett
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 11:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Polls: Errors on Prime Time - NOT AN ERROR Are you saying that only Gore supporters could not figure out the ballot? Plus, only Gore voters were too timid

Re: Polls: Errors on Prime Time - NOT AN ERROR

2000-11-13 Thread J. Williams
Are you saying that only Gore supporters could not figure out the ballot? Plus, only Gore voters were too timid to ask for assistance or for a new ballot? :-)) Could it be that they are complaining ex post facto when confronted with an unpopular result? :-) Apparently, upon leaving the pollin

Re: Polls: Errors on Prime Time - NOT AN ERROR

2000-11-13 Thread SSCHEINE
Actually, the exiting polls got it right!!! Remember, a lot of people left the polling booth thinking that they had voted for Gore, when they had actually messed up their ballot. Based on who they thought that they had voted for, they informed the exit pollers who called it for Gore. Sam *