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To: Scumbria who wrote (116875)11/11/2000 2:06:12 AM
From: Barry Grossman  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Scumbria,

the injustice

I am sorry but I see no injustice in this.

If some some voters in Palm Beach County failed to mark their ballots properly, it is not an injustice that this occurred.

There were 432,695 votes that were counted in the first count. If there were 19,000 ballots that were disallowed because of votes for both Gore and Buchanan, they amounted to only 4.2% of all the voters in PB county. In addition, if there are 3000 of the 3400 votes that went to Buchanan instead of to Bush because of a mistake the voters made, this amounted to another .5%. So 95% of the voters had no problem voting correctly and 5% had a problem.

This is not an injustice. These 5% were careless and the other 95% were careful. Carelessness by voters isn't injustice - it's stupidity. Even stupid people get to vote in this country. No injustice in that.

Barry
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