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To: MeDroogies who wrote (86743)	11/13/2000 11:24:03 AM
From: Richard Habib	Read Replies (1) of 97611

"I have, on occasion, punched one button on the machine, only to then punch another after a bit of thinking. Thankfully, touch pads are forgiving. I can also envision a situation where I'd punch a button, then decide I don't like my choice and prefer not to vote for either candidate." The analogy on a punch ballot is that you place the stylus on a choice, apply very little pressure, realize your mistake and punch through another choice. The scanner might see this as an overvote it and void it during the count even though intent is fairly obvious. Dimples and pregnant are pretty rare. This is a tough standard. That's why it's quite fair. Also you can see why none of this would matter in all but the closest elections. It's an unfortunate confluence of events that the election may depend on a county that had a large statistical anomaly of overvotes due to confusion on a ballot and that that county used punch ballots. Rich

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