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Strategies & Market Trends : Zeev's Turnips
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To: Bosco who wrote (223)11/29/2000 10:01:05 PM
From: Carl R.  Read Replies (2) of 644
 
There must be at least a risk of tampering because both parties seem to consider it to be extremely risky to allow the other to touch the ballots. I know that the Republicans were concerned about it, and you will note that the Democrats raised a huge fuss at the thought that "Judicial Watch", which is apparently some sort of Republican-affiliated group, examining the ballots.

And to Zeev, yes, I am old enough to have handled many an IBM punch card in my day. I concede that it is possible that some of the chads on the floor could come from static. However these cards have already been through the readers at least twice. In fact I believe that for the recount they ran the cards through the reader 3 times, in which case they have been through the readers 4 times. After that many passes I would think that there wouldn't be many stray chads still attached by static. I recall quite a mess of chads near the punching machine, but after the cards had been sorted and/or read a few times I don't recall any stray chads.

Carl
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