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To: multicollinearity who wrote (60967)	11/12/2000 4:12:32 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) of 93625

mul---ty: It has nothing to do with force of punch or strenght of paper. It has to do with the abrasive nature of the peper slowly wearing down the shear edges to the point where they crush and tear the paper. If there is not enough travel to the punch the punched out disc can hang onto the ballot by a strand or more and those fibers can act like a hinge so when the ballot is laid flat the paper cut (called a 'chad') can fold back and block the light path of an optical reader. It is a known problem. The burst type, where the peper is not punched but is burst by a blunt projection has the same problem. The machines with the true punches built in usually have a bunch of punched, one individual punch for each potential ballot hole. These usually also have a lockout so once you make one punck in a selected area you are stopped from making another one, for example you can make one Presidential punch, one VP, x senators, y congressmen etc. They have those smarts. The blunt prong type is just a paper holder and a grid of gaps behind the paper for you to make a burst of the paper at that point. You can make too many holes if you are not too swift.... as many of the people in certain areas in Florida did....are they then really informed voters. Some hav accused the Democratic machinery of registering many elderly people who were not fully compos mentis and when they entered the booth, they played with their ballot a bit to much, some 19,200 spolied by over punching. I can see over punching being a reason to reject the ballot....the person was to dumb to understand what they were doing. I looked at the butterfly ballot and it looks perfectly rational to me. There is a name and an arrow to each name to punch. This ballot was approved by all parties. I am in Canada and do not side with either the democrats or republicans, they have zero meaning here. I do know that you cannot let this be decided by judges who are republicans or democrats, for obvious reasons. Bill

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