ot.Zeev,
If I understand it, the 4700 refered to absentee ballot applications with missing information. How many of those ballots actually were returned after the applicants receive them is also not known, as well as which of the absentee ballots actually sent back are from that 4700 group.
I think people would like to thrown these 4700 out if they can, but the problem seems to be :
1. They don't know how many of those 4700 were returned.
2. They don't know which ones of the 11,000 that came back were from the 4,700.
3. If there is a valid remedy, it should be done, but trying to throw out all 11,000 seems rather drastic.
Is this what happened, or am I mistaken? The problem IS over applications for absentee ballots right? It's not that some worker actually handled the actual ballots and filled in missing information. Is that right?
If I understand the court case correctly, the intent is to disqualify all 11,000 absentee ballots that WERE returned since no one knows which is which...
I know that once conviction sets in, it is very hard to consider other scenarios, but perhaps the real problem is that almost all the smaller states have basically gone to Bush, the almost all the larger more populous ones to Gore, and Florida, being in the middle, is just sort of pulled both ways.
If indeed true that there is a valid reason why most of the problem votes are for Gore, then it is indeed a very strange world we live in.
Perhaps being Canadian allows me to be cynical on both these guys more than anyone else down there.
SbH |
