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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (128313)11/12/2000 4:12:31 PM
From: david_langston  Read Replies (1) of 1570506
 
Comb,

complaining about the hand count done in New Mexico either on punch cards

As far as I can determine the 38K or 68K ballots held out in Bernalillo Co. were machine-readable, absentee ballots. I don't know why they were initially held out, but most were eventually machine read. Several hundred had to be hand counted because the machines kicked them out perhaps due to folding or crumpling for mailing (I'm guessing here). I hadn't heard and didn't think that they were punch card type because punch cards require a "set up" holder and they are inherently "fragile" when compared to the optical black-mark type.

Remember Bush didn't specifically ask for those ballots to be hand counted, so it can't be cited as an example of Bush hypocrisy with respect to FL hand count (you didn't, others have).

I think deliberate miscounting mischief could be easy for those incompletely punched out ballots. The Democrats have made up a whole set of complicated rules to decide if a hole has been punched. There are no official hole punch rules in the state. Making up rules late in the game isn't fair.

I also believe that they may be able to pull out enough votes for Gore by perfectly legal means. By hand counting they should be able to increase both candidate's votes, but because the county favored Gore, he should gain the disproportionate share of the increased vote count. The slick trick is to only do it in Democrat counties. The Republicans naively believed that if the vote goes against you after a recount - you concede.

Dave
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