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Strategies & Market Trends : Steve's Channelling Thread
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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (8229)11/27/2000 10:56:30 PM
From: Dave B  Read Replies (1) of 30051
 
Zeev,

One of the tid bits I picked up was from an old guy that worked for year for the manufacturer of these machines, and indeed, according to him, the row used most often (the presidential row?) deteriorates with time causing weaker people (the old and infirms? is the partition of that population weighed in favor of the democrats?) no to be (easily) able to penetrate the ballot.

I'll grant "confusing" possibly on the ballots, but we use the exact same paper ballots in Santa Clara County and it takes maybe 1/2 of an ounce of pressure to push through the card. Anyone who doesn't have the strength to push out the hole wouldn't have the strength to pick up the stylus. Or walk to the voting machine. Or lift up their arm. All of those activities take much more strength than pushing out the chad.

You're flogging a dead horse on this "they weren't strong enough" thing. Even Gore's lawyers aren't claiming that anymore.

Dave

p.s. I may be wrong on this, but I believe the news reports that having been quoting the "first row" problem are talking about the card readers, not the voting machines.

p.p.s. It doesn't sound to me like the 4700 ballots in Seminole County should be allowed. However, interestingly, Gore apparently hasn't contested those.

p.p.p.s. Why is no one interested in counting the 175,000 ballots in California that weren't "counted"? Or the 125,000 in Illinois? Or the who-knows-how-many-ballots-weren't-counted-in-the-other-states? Maybe Gore wouldn't have won the popular vote if Republican ESP in Republican areas was matched up against Democratic ESP in Democratic areas. <G>
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