You realize of course that what you posted makes liars out of a lot of Wimp Jr groupies here, don't you? I've only read 2 of the myths but already I see that a lot of the lies that I knew were being told have been outed by someone else on the internet. Take myth #2 for example, they've been lying about this for days, I was just too lazy to go find the real figures.
2) Myth: the number of "spoiled ballots" in Palm Beach County was typical. In a press briefing televised live on all networks on 11/9/00, Karl Rove of the Bush campaign compared the 14,872 invalidated ballots in the 1996 Presidential race to 19,120 ballots for President that were spoiled in the 2000 election.
Fact: he Bush campaign was comparing apples and oranges. There were actually 29,702 invalidated Presidential ballots this year in Palm Beach County, twice the number in 1996. The number 19,120 refers to ballots thrown out for voting for two Presidential candidates. The remaining 10,582 ballots had no choice recorded for President.
According to the Palm Beach County elections office (www.pbcelections.org), voters this year were not confused at all by the rest of the ballot. For example, less than 1% of U.S. Senate votes were invalidated because of multiple punches, compared with over 4% in the Presidential contest |
