The paper ballots aren't "flawed." The people who failed to punch them failed to "vote." What does the term, "vote," mean, anyway? Isn't there an "act," involved, and shouldn't that simple "act" be required to be accomplished? What if somebody rested the punch on the ballot, broke a corner, then decided, "No, I don't want Al Gore making any more secret arms deals with Russia," but didn't like Bush, either, then went to the next race? It should be counted as a "NO VOTE." But the WPB canvassers, midway through the hand "reclassification," decided that was a vote for Gore. How can they divine this? They can't.
As to the protection against "bias" from both a Rep. and Dem. looking over each other's shoulder, that isn't the point. The "bias" comes from: 1) no standards applied equally as to what constitutes a "vote;" and 2) only heavily Democrat counties are having their ballots "reclassified" (I choose not to dignify it with the term, "re-count"), with a built-in mathematical bias in favor of the candidate who had the most votes in those counties. The Daley machine has this process down to a science; many articles are being written about it. |
