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"Explicit statistical evidence of massive ballot tampering in Palm
Beach, Fl"
"Explicit statistical evidence of massive ballot tampering in Palm
Beach, Fl"
Errors only Occurred in Presidential Races?
Editor's Note: The following statistical analysis was sent to me by
Robert Cook, PE, a nuclear engineer, with an MS in statistical quality
control, a software testing specialist and QA manager, who has a track
record for analyzing and correcting trends, errors, and mistakes in
heavy construction projects (ships, power plants, nuclear reactors,
military and aerospace vehicles, etc. for more than twenty years.
Robert Cook presents here a remarkable statistical analysis of the
Palm Beach presidential ballot controversy that deserves serious
investigation. He says that the controversial 19,120 Presidential race
ballots at issue there were "destroyed by deliberate double-punching
ballots in Palm Beach County FL with a 'second punch' for Al Gore or
Pat Buchanan. (In 1996, an additional 15,000 Dole and Perot ballots
were destroyed by double-punching presidential ballots in Palm Beach
County, FL. *)
"It uses simplified but wide-ranging statistical comparisons to
establish beyond doubt that democratic operatives "stole" by
double-punching ballots approximately 15,000 Bush votes in Palm Beach
County; and approximately 3,400 additional Buchanan votes."
_________________________________________________________________
09 November, 2000
By: Robert A. Cook, PE
Ref: Statistical evidence establishes beyond reasonable doubt that
19,120 Presidential race ballots were destroyed by deliberate
double-punching ballots in Palm Beach County FL with a "second punch"
for Al Gore or Pat Buchanan. (In 1996, an additional 15,000 Dole and
Perot ballots were destroyed by double-punching presidential ballots
in Palm Beach County, FL. *)
The national error rate of double-punching ballots is less than 1/2 of
one percent, or at most, 1800 ballots in all of Palm Beach County,
with the errors between all races and all candidates.
19,120 double punched ballots -all in one race, with "errors" only
occurring two Presidential races against Republican opposition - is
33,000 "too many" to be an accident.
References:
(*9 Nov, 2000 CNN; Jim Smith, Former Florida Secretary of State; WSJ,
11-10-2000) (San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov 10, 2000, page A-12, Local
Figure on Double Voting Only 0.3%; Haas Sees Red Flag in Florida
Totals; by Caitlin Rother) (Los Vegas Sun, Nov 10, 2000. Statistics
Point To More Than Random Error in Florida Vote; by Jace Radke)
The news media is utterly focused on the Democratic Party spin that
voters were "confused" in Palm Beach, FL. They are ignoring the 15,000
Bush and 3,400 Buchanan votes that statistical evidence can show were
stolen by fraud in these 19,120 ballots.
There is explicit statistical evidence of massive ballot tampering in
Palm Beach FL. These ballots show Democratic voter fraud....NOT
Republican fraud or "voter error" as publicized by the national media.
Statistical evidence cannot prove any single ballot was tampered with,
nor show which individual tampered with any single ballot. It can show
specific places and times and methods where the fraud was done. (For
example, if 15,000 dollars are missing from the register the day after
your cashier left on a Los Vegas vacation, there is no direct evidence
that the cashier stole the money. If, however, 19,120 dollars are
missing from the register the next year when the cashier again leaves
for vacation in Los Vegas, one has reason to investigate the cashier
closely.)
Consider these "unusual" ballot problems in Palm Beach, FL - every one
of them adds more Gore votes, and removed Republican and Reform party
votes.
ONLY Palm Beach County Florida voters seem incapable of understanding
and using this style of ballot.
Palm Beach County has an error rate TEN TIMES larger than reported in
ANY other county in the nation using paper punch ballots! No
information is available about the number of ballots invalidated for
previous primary, state, and the 1998 Congressional votes. Unless an
equal number (equal proportion of "invalid ballots" per primary voter)
of ballots was double-punched in the 1996 primaries, the 1998
primaries, and the 1998 Congressional races ..... the Palm Beach
election officials are specifically guilty of deliberate ballot
tampering fraud in the year 2000 Presidential elections.)
ONLY in Palm Beach FL were 15,000 ballots "invalidated" (for double
punched ballots) in the 1996 Presidential election. (This is almost
unique among the entire nation! (Certain central city Democratic
precincts in Chicago reported 120,000 double-punched ballots; and
Duval County in Florida reported 22,000 double-punched ballots.
Neither used the same arrangement of candidates as at Palm Beach. This
shows that "lining up" buttons was NOT actually an issue at Palm
Beach, but was created as an excuse to blame the symptoms of fraud at
Palm Beach.)
One early excuse given to the national news media by Democratic
"spokesmen" to explain the Palm Beach fraud was that people were
'exchanging" their double-punched ballots - and were given new
ones...If so, over 26 people per minute "were confused" and voted
twice for President! This many errors were supposedly made, detected,
and corrected (by handing out new ballots) while no person made any
"error" in any other race. This excuse would also mean that more
voters were being handed new ballots per minute than new voters were
being signed in. (19,120 "double punched" Democratic ballots divided
by 12 hours, there are fewer than 100 precincts in Palm Beach County
where the precinct level returns are suspect . Significantly, the
massive number of errors occurred only in a few of the precincts, and
all of those precincts were strongly Democratic. In precinct 144F, for
example, there was only one "counted" republican voter for president.)
However, the "double-punched" ballots counted in the election were NOT
exchanged, and were actually read by the voting machine. They are the
symptom and the method of the fraud. There is no reason for this early
Democratic Party statement other than that of beginning a cover-up for
the double-punched ballots.
Not surprisingly, this early fable was not maintained, and has not be
repeated. It also has not been retracted or contradicted by follow-up
stories in the national news media.
ONLY in Palm Beach (and in ONLY the most heavily Democratic precincts)
were 19,120 ballots rejected in 2000 for double punching....(This is a
4.4% error rate overall; in the rest of Florida there is less than 1/2
of ONE percent "double punch" error rate! (Unofficially, this error
rate was 15% in predominately Afro-American precincts, and 10% in
precincts with large numbers of Jewish retirees.) In strongly
Republican precincts, the error rate was the "usual" 1/2 of one
percent.) San Diego County has 800,000 voters, and (overall) has more
senior, retired, minority, and new immigrants than does Palm Beach
County. Since all of these were represented the 1992, 1996, and 2000
results in the San Diego double count totals, there can be no excuse
for "innocent errors" in Palm Beach.
ONLY in Palm Beach did this "double punch" error happen ONLY in the
Gore-Bush-Buchanan selections for President. (In a truly random
"error," the mistakes happen in every race, all at about the same
rate. In Palm Beach, the massive errors (over 19,000) ONLY happened in
the Presidential race.)
ONLY in Palm Beach has the news media complained about "massive"
ballot confusion. In the 43 counties in Missouri, also mostly
Democratic voters, which use the same kind of ballot, there are NO
complaints about "confused voters" at all. (St Louis Post Dispatch,
Nov 8, 2000) Therefore, ONLY in Palm Beach FL do the Democrats have to
"explain" a massive number of incorrect votes.
ONLY in Palm Beach did Gore GAIN 750 votes in a recount. In 50 out of
67 counties in FL, the actual change in the recount was 5-7 votes, and
in 63 out of 67 counties, the total change was less than 30 votes
either way. Further, in 63 out of 67 counties the "changes" were
somewhat evenly divided between ALL the candidates, in rough
proportion to the original number of votes. This is the statistically
expected result, and represents a true and legal recount of the
ballots without any change in the ballots themselves.
This means that Palm Beach FL had an error rate in favor of Gore more
than 120 TIMES greater than any other county, (Two other heavily
Democratic "inner city" counties (Flagler and Pinellas) had changes
greater than 400 votes. Whether or not fraud existed in those counties
is possible, but not analyzed here.) In a statistically valid recount,
half of the errors would favor Bush, and half favor Gore. This extreme
change from the normal in only three counties shows massive
"tampering" towards Gore in those three counties between the original
machine count (already tainted by fraud.) and the second machine
recount.
In EVERY precinct in Palm Beach where Gore got more votes than there
are registered Democrats., Bush received less than 60% of the
registered Republican votes. In NO precinct in Palm Beach County did
Bush receive more than 80% of the number of registered Republicans.
.... (Absentee ballots were equally distributed by percentage between
the two parties at 8% each. Thus, there is specific evidence to show
that the "level of interest" in the Presidential election was equal
between the two parties.) It is ONLY in the "counted" turnout on Nov 7
that the democrats appear to "remove" 15,000 votes in the Presidential
race.
Or, it is ONLY in Palm Beach County that more than 20% of the
registered Republicans "forgot" to vote for their party's presidential
candidate. This 'lack of interest" by the republicans despite equally
massive "get-out-the vote" efforts by both parties. As shown by the
absentee ballot numbers, there WAS equal interest in the election by
both parties; at least until the votes were "totaled".
ONLY in Palm Beach did Bush receive LESS than 65% of the registered
Republican voters. (Registered Republicans = 231,626 while Bush voters
= 152,954.) On average, in every other county in FL Bush received MORE
votes than there were registered Republicans. In the rest of the
nation, poll results show more than 90% of registered Republicans
actively supported the Republican candidate. (Also, unique in the
entire state, the percentage of Republican voters COUNTED as voting in
Palm Beach was much less than normal, despite the pre-election
attention to Florida as a critical state; and massive Republican get
-out-the-vote campaigns.)
This is very significant when the Republican Senate race is examined.
To compare similar counties in Florida, look at the 10 counties in
Florida where there are more than 100,000 democratic voters for
president. In every one of these counties - EXCEPT Palm Beach County -
Gore received FEWER votes than Nelson, the democratic Senate
candidate. In Palm Beach county, Gore received slightly more votes
than Nelson, which is not by itself statistically significant.
However, his "gain" over equally sized counties IS directly
proportional to the number of "blank ballets" (or "protest votes")
that were cast in Palm Beach County.)
However, in 8 of 10 of these counties, Bush led McCollum (the
Republican Senate candidate by a major proportional to the county
size, with the margin being between 25,000 votes and 4000 votes.
McCollum ONLY led Bush in Palm Beach County and Lee County (which is
also the focus of fraud due to its change in votes during the
recount.) The margin of Bush's lead in two counties close to Palm
Beach in population was 15,000 votes and 15,000 - equal to the number
of Republican presidential voters "missing" when the number of
registered Republicans is checked.
The only way this could occur is if 15,000 registered Republican
voters went to the polls, and "forgot" to cast their votes for
president, or were "confused" and voted twice for President by did NOT
replace their ballot at the polling booth; while remembering to
correctly and accurately punch 15,000 votes for the Republican Senate
candidate.
The same number of "missing" Republican votes is found when the four
Congressional races involved in Palm Beach County are checked.
ONLY in Palm Beach County do the smaller (Congressional) races outdraw
the Presidential race. Again, the number of total Republican votes
"missing" (not counted in the presidential race) is equal to 15,000
Bush votes destroyed by double punching in the Presidential race.
The only way this could occur is if 15,000 registered Republican
voters went to the polls, and "forgot" to cast their votes for
president, or were "confused" and voted twice for President but did
NOT replace their ballot at the polling booth; while remembering to
correctly and accurately punch 15,000 votes for the Republican
Congressional candidate in their district.
When the two "coincidences" of correct votes in two other races are
included, it is impossible to accept "confusion" in the presidential
race.
ONLY in Palm Beach did Buchanan get less than HALF the of votes he
received before in 1996. Buchanan's "lost" votes in that county in
2000 were much greater than in any other district in Florida.
(Buchanan received over 8,000 votes in 1996 Republican PRIMARY (where
only registered Republicans can vote; but he received only 3,407 under
the Reform Party from ALL voters in the 2000 Presidential election.
(Pat Buchanan has relatives who lives in Palm Beach County, and this
local support greatly increase the number of local voters who choose
Buchanan, compared to every other region of the country. There are
over 14,551 members of the Reform party in Palm Beach County - which
indicates that less than 1/5 of the Reform voters voted for their own
candidate. The Fraud is NOT whether Gore voters were "confused" and
voted for Gore, but rather WHY Reform Party and Libertarian voters
were prevented from registering THEIR vote!)
Much has been (erroneously) made of the number of apparent Buchanan
votes, with some partial observers (paid by the democratic Party
officials who started the first lawsuits requesting a recount)
claiming that his total vote count "must" be wrong.
It is important to note that Buchanan's running mate is the FIRST
Afro-American to run for national office. Further, she is only the
SECOND woman to run for national office. Given the demographics of the
Palm Beach are, and its high concentration of minorities, it is
perhaps surprising that Buchanan-Foster didn't get more votes than
they are credited with receiving.
There is a simple, single explanation for ALL of these 19,120 problems
in ONE set of ballots in ONE district in ONE state.
15,000 Bush ballots, and 3,400 more Buchanan ballots, were
double-punched to imitate a Gore vote, AFTER legitimate voters left
their polling booth.
Assume 45,000 ballots were stuck with a stiff wire or pointed tool. It
would take somebody a little bit of privacy and about 15 minutes. A
ream of paper is 1 inch thick, 45,000 many ballots can be carried by
one person in one handcart or box, damaged, and returned to position
very quickly. More simply, they could be punched several hundred at a
time while the stack is lined before being read at the voting machine
- since all the ballots would already be lined up and stacked neatly
in order at that time.
Originally,
3,000 = Buchanan
15,000 = Bush
25,000 = Gore (Gore has approximately a 2:1 margin over Bush in Palm
Beach Cty.)
1,250 = other parties and random existing errors
750 = "blank" or "protest votes"- No vote for President; other spots
may be filled in.
After ....
3,000 Buchanan + Gore = thrown out.
15,000 Bush + Gore = thrown out.
25,000 Gore (+ Gore) = GOOD VOTES for Gore = counted already
1,250 + others + Gore = thrown out.
750 = "blank" + Gore = Gore additional "free" votes
Stamping 45,000 ballots with a tool (or other device) THROUGH the Gore
slot gives:
Every Gore vote = still a valid Gore vote. (No change in the total, no
change in the recount.)
Every Bush, Buchanan, Workers Party, and Libertarian Party ballot IS
IMMEDIATELY INVALID. They will be thrown out because they have two
votes. They NEVER were counted in the first place = no change in the
recount. The double-punch occurs ONLY in the presidential race, and no
position on the ballot is disturbed. All other races are correctly
counted.
EVERY ballot that had no vote (a "protest vote" against both major
candidates) becomes a Gore vote. All other races on the ballot are not
disturbed, and are correctly counted.
Evidence of fraud by selectively punching "empty" or "protest" ballots
before the recount.
Statewide, 2% of the voters deliberately chose NOT to select a
presidential candidate. 2% of 45,000 ballots is 900, statistically
equal to the 950 "votes" changed into 750 Gore votes, and 150 Bush
votes during the recount. It is statistically impossible (odds of over
149 million to 1) to have ONE county out of 67 change its recount
votes by over 900 votes if it is counting untainted, unaltered
ballots, while the other 64 counties (using legal methods) change
their recounts by less than 30 votes either way!
Significantly, the recount results DO require that approximately 900
ballots be "blank" or "protest votes (originally) before tampering.
From the first set of 45,000 tampered ballots, there would no "blank
ballots" for the Presidential election - all would have an original
vote, or be blank from a protest vote and be filled in by the original
double-punching. Further, no additional double-punching could be done,
or an additional 15,000 presidential votes would be canceled during
the recount.
However, the recount processed all ballots again, and thus allowed 900
"selected" blank ballots to be "newly counted" - rather than being
left blank as in the original.
The key to prosecuting the criminals involved: maintaining the
double-punched ballots separate in the order they were originally
received, and under evidentiary control for later prosecution.
1. RECOUNTING them by hand, recording the remainder of the votes on
the ballot. Gloves are required to avoid contaminating the fingerprint
evidence (if any) of who handled the ballots. Also, if available,
precinct numbers of which precinct processed should be kept with the
ballot. Note that continuing the "hand-recount" effort (as now
demanded by the Democrats) will destroy any fingerprint evidence
available, since all judges are handling the ballots with no
protection..
2. Finding out the order of the double punched ballots (in groups,
one-by-one, or only at the top of box of ballots) will yield forensic
evidence to indicate how the fraud was done, and who did it.
3. Looking for a pattern of tears, hanging remnants of paper, and
misshapen holes - a pattern that will appear ONLY in those ballots
that have duplicated votes - I have used this kind of paper-punch
ballot for many years here in GA. A "valid" hole is created when you
punch the ballot above the hole in the voting booth. IF the ballot has
been "stacked" together and many ballots were punched at one time -
the stacked ballots will have remnants, paper tears, misaligned holes,
and oddly shaped holes......It is these violated 15,000 Bush votes
that Gore wants to declare "Gore" votes....further violating the legal
Bush vote already discarded by the voting machine.
4. The fraudulent double-punched ballots will show double punches ONLY
in the presidential race....and no other errors in other races that
are properly punched. A "valid error" in the first race (the
presidential race) that was detected by the voter and replaced with
another ballot - WILL NOT BE RECORDED. THOSE BALLOTS WOULD HAVE BEEN
REPLACED ALREADY by the election official and the replacement put in
the ballot box.
5. The double-punched ballots will ALWAYS include a Gore
vote....legitimate errors will have randomly distributed errors in
every position.... If the ballots include an overwhelming number of
number of "Bush + Gore" votes, and almost no "Bush + Buchanan" votes,
then that proves that this set of ballots were tampered with and never
counted in the first place ... because the voting machine discards
double punched ballots.. IF the ballots include "no" (or very few)
Bush + Buchanan, or "Buchanan + somebody + Gore votes" else....then it
shows that they were deliberately tampered with to exclude (throw out)
otherwise valid Bush votes.
There has been speculation that the tampering may have involved
Buchanan duplicates "accidentally" punched in several thousand ballots
cases by double-punching the Buchanan position. This creates a
Buchanan "double-punch" rather than a "Gore" double punch. The same
evidentiary and analysis rules apply. The result, as far as Bush is
concerned, are the same. The valid Bush vote is voided, not by a Gore
+ Bush double punch, but by a Buchanan + Bush double punch. Any Gore
votes in the group accidentally double-punched will be voided as well.
Obviously.... Every tampered ballot WILL include a GORE vote, if the
double punch was done by a Gore operative inserting a false Gore vote.
Of all double-punched ballots, a certain number (0.3% of the original
460,000 ballots, or 7-9% of the 19,120 double-punched ballots) will
contain "true" errors randomly spread among all the contenders. Or if
an "error" was made in the tampering, the pattern would be a massive
number of Gore + Buchanan and Buchanan + Bush double-punched ballots,
plus the same 7% of randomly generated errors spread among all
contenders. Further, if an error in double-punching fraud occurred, it
is reasonable to assume that the error did not occur every time. The
ratio of Gore + Buchanan and Gore + Bush and Buchanan + Bush ballots
may vary between precincts, depending on how long the puncher was
"confused" and how many operatives got "confused" between the Buchanan
button and the Gore button.
The combination of deliberate double-punched Gore + valid vote"
ballots and confused "Buchanan + valid vote" ballots will total 19120
ballots. Approximately 1400 ballots will be random errors, and the
remainder, deliberate (or accidental!) double-punched ballots
To verify this....count the doubled ballots, list each with what OTHER
votes were cast. Almost NO "legitimate" Gore voter would choose other
Republican choices, or at least very, very few would. IF almost all of
the Bush + Gore ballots had mostly Republican choices, or blanks where
there is a Democrat running unopposed, then that shows additional
evidence where a Bush vote was destroyed.
ONLY when a Gore + Buchanan ballot shows almost all Democrats is there
the potential for "confusion": these few ballots will show the few
cases where some Gore supporter actually got confused!
A Buchanan + Gore vote with a reform Party vote for Senator is
evidence of a Buchanan vote that got destroyed. Approximately 2000 of
these ballots are expected. There is a definite possibility that the
double-punch fraud involves the Buchanan presidential vote being
duplicated - either accidentally (by error!) of a Gore operative
double-punching the wrong ballot hole, or by a Buchanan operative
adding votes for his candidate.
The Democratic cover-up by Election Officials began before the ballots
were "officially counted. Massive and continuing publicity that
declares "voter confusion" before the ballots are "counted" or results
released indicates that the "double-punch" error was known before the
ballots were totaled "officially."
Palm Beach County was one the last counties in Florida to release its
voting results, and the Palm Beach County results were critical in a
last minute "surge" in Gore votes that reduced Bush's lead from 50,000
votes (in Florida overall) to less than 1500. Late delivery of votes,
with the specific precinct vote count delayed until the required
number of votes is known, is classic symptom of local election fraud.
It DOES NOT prove fraud, but late delivery of vote results is the most
common way of tampering with the vote, and is essential if ballot
tampering is involved in the vote fraud. Late delivery of fraudulent
votes has happened in several previous democratic elections at the
national level, showing that the individuals involved had close
knowledge of previous fraud and its successes.
Local Democrat officials are claiming that these are "double -punched!
They know...and were told early this morning! to collect 3000 old
folks who could claim they were confused...They quickly needed a cover
story to explain that the ballots were "confusing" to create the 3000
Gore - Buchanan "voters" that they need.
But in the remaining two days after the elections, no local democratic
officials can physically identify the required number (19,120)
"confused" witnesses who can attest to actually double-punching
ballots. ANY citizen who realized that they double-punched a ballot at
the polling booth was able to exchange ballots and resubmit his
choices. IT IS CRITICAL TO UNDERSTAND THAT THESE "REPLACED" BALLOTS
WERE SET ASIDE IMMEDIATELY, AND WERE NEVER COUNTED IN THE MACHINES.
The 19,120 double-punched ballots include ONLY those actually an error
(approximately 1300) and those double-punched by fraud.
Note, after the first two days, the local party officials have
softened their rhetoric and are only claiming "hundreds" of "confused
voters." Again, no actual lists of these citizens have been released
for confirmation or interviews by investigators.
Further evidence of deliberate double-punching of ballots, and perhaps
of making an error in the fraud itself by double-punching a Buchanan
hole rather than a Gore hole is the immediate cover-up effort by
democratic officials.
The national Democratic Party hired a Texas telemarketing firm to call
several thousand voters in Palm beach County late Tuesday night
specifically to "prompt" Palm Beach citizens to declare "they were
confused" by the ballots, and specifically to declare being "confused"
between the Gore and Buchanan ballot positions. Further, the national
democratic telemarketing campaign was instructing users in what to
claim ballot positions to be "confused" with, and was specifically
prompting the people that they called to declare a "Buchanan-Gore"
confusion on Tuesday night, before midnight. This was approximately 5
hours BEFORE the Palm Beach results were released.
Also, national democratic teams were in flight to Palm Beach
immediately after midnight, again before the results were officially
known to anyone. This indicates that democratic leaders at the
precinct level (and thus the national level) knew about the
"confusion" (accidentally/incorrectly double-punched Buchanan ballots)
BEFORE the Palm Beach votes were counted, and several hours before
they were released to the Florida election officials.
Note too that this telemarketing campaign began before the Palm Beach
results were announced. Before anyone (other than election officials)
knew how any double-punched ballots existed, nor which ballot choices
(for president) were double-punched.
No democratic source has ever offered proof of this "vast number" of
confused voters, and no Democratic operative has offered any
explanation why "confusion" needs to be advertised and prompted for in
a telemarketing phone blitz at any time other than this elections.
This indicates that the actual number of voters actually "confused" is
minor, and further indicates that the Gore-Buchanan "confusion" may
exist ) The individuals who are suing now to revote that ballots are
experienced democratic officials, donors, and activists - on even a
formerly elected official.
Democratic officials in Palm Beach County have not been able to
explain why 15,000 ballots were double-punched in 1996 AND in 2000.
The "butterfly ballots were NOT used in the previous Presidential
election. Thus, there is a pattern not of massive error by the voters,
but of continued fraud by the Democratic election committee members
and local officials. Further indication of deliberate fraud is that
there is no evidence of previous massive "voter error" in Democratic
primaries, Democratic runoff's, or Congressional races the past years.
Specifically, Massive "voter confusion" does appear in the democratic
primaries (where Democratic votes must be accurate!) and where there
was little effective opposition to the Democratic Congressman (Waxler)
Symptoms of voter fraud by double punching will stand out by the
number of the doubled punches, and by the remaining choices on the
ballet.
A Republican voter will have in almost every case have punched Bush +
several other Republican candidates.
So look for how many "Bush + Gore" ballots have mostly Republican
choices below. THESE ARE FRAUDS. They represent Bush votes that were
stolen. There are about 15,000 of these ballots.
A "true" Buchanan voter would have punched Buchanan and a mix of other
candidates....A Libertarian voter would most likely be choosing a
variety of flowing positions, depending on his personal opinion of
freedom and regulation. There will be about 2000-3000 of these
ballots.
A "mistaken" "Gore + Buchanan" voter would ALMOST CERTAINLY have
chosen the Democrats in the rest of the ballot.....or, IF AS THEY
CLAIM, those "Gore + Buchanan" voters that were "told to push the
second hole" really meant "only followed directions" ---- THEN the
rest of the ballot would be solid Democrat, or blank.
There will be approximately 0.3% of the total ballots used (1380 out
of 460,000) that are legitimate errors or protest votes with a several
candidates selected.
NOT "confused" 15,000 Bush voters in 1996....and 15,000 other
"confused" Dole and Perot voters in 2000. |
