You keep saying that there were 19000 ballots that were marked both Gore and Buchanan. Unless you can provide authority for this, I will presume that you are deliberately stating something that you know isn't true. There are 19,120 ballots that have multiple people checked. No doubt some of these have the Buchanan-Gore combination, but how many? It would indeed be odd if over 19,000 are that single combination, but I have seen no evidence that supports that bald assertion.
There are enough questions in Florida without people making stuff up, so let's stick to the facts. I agree that the voting pattern in Volusia county is very unusual, whereas the voting pattern in Palm Beach County is only slightly unusual with Buchanan getting about twice as many votes percentage-wise as in the rest of the state, though other counties were even higher. In Volusia the votes for three candidates are unusually high, by a combined total of about 15,000 votes. Should those votes have been Gores? Or Bush's? Again, I have seen nothing that indicates what explains the strange vote counts, have you?
Carl |
