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To: Juli who wrote (35421)	11/30/2000 10:51:27 AM
From: James Strauss	Read Replies (2) of 50167

In 1961 a study was done and the study concluded that the punch card ballots had too many errors to be used in elections. Almost forty years later nothing has been done. The manufacturer states only that they are 99% accurate. This is simply not accurate enough to decide a close election. Juli: During a news conference today it was pointed out that punch card ballots reject 350% more ballots than optical scan ballots... This is not just opinions but actual data from the state of Florida... Just because a punch card goes through a machine but doesn't mean that all the data on the card has been tallied... The manufacturer of the voting machine states that 1% error is acceptable... It's not acceptable in an election that's decided by less than 1/2%... That's what we have now... Just because a punch card goes through a machine twice doesn't mean it's accurately read... Especially when it reads all the other lines except the presidential line... To accurately count means counting what's there... Running a punch card through a machine 100 times without it picking up the vote is not counting that vote... It's simply running a punch card through the machine... An analogy to this is putting a dollar bill in a vending machine... Sometimes the machine doesn't recognize the dollar bill and spits it out... Does that mean you never put in a real dollar? No... It just means that the machine didn't recognize the dollar... The same thing is happening with the under votes... For some reason the machines are not recognizing the votes in the presidential line... So, saying that the vote was counted is inaccurate... A mechanical attempt was made to count it... The attempt failed... Therefore, Florida law allows for human intervention (hand counts)... This is not a Democratic or Republican issue... It's an American Constitutional issue... If these under votes are not aloud to be counted, there will be a cloud hanging over our Constitution and how other countries perceive us... Jim

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