All right, here is the longer answer. Your analogy is silly, at least if we are talking about the chad issue and not the mistaken Buchanan issue, which is not going anywhere in my view.
So now the chad issue. If a voter accidentally punched out the chad for Nader instead of Gore (or in your analogy the losing number instead of winning number), there is no way the vote is going to be counted for Gore if the voter comes in after the fact and said oops I made a mistake. Of course, that is not what is going on the recount. Instead, a voter punched the chad for Gore, but it didnt completely fall out. The question is do you count that vote? For many years in many jurisdictions, including Texas, the answer has been yes.
Like I said, I'm sure you can do better. But I have to go out for a while, so try out your examples on others, and I will check back with you later. Knock yourself out. |
