a Florida law that, in fact, allows Gore a right to a Full Manual Recount. You can't deny that. Also, once it's shown via the sample that the difference could effect the outcome of the election that manual recount must happen.
There's Maverick's theory/extrapolation and your #'s - Nonvotes, undervotes, for the presidence with Florida's optical scanners showed 3 in 1,000. In Palm Beach County it was 22 in 1,000. On average, throughout 48 counties statistically studied in Florida (see 11/26 Boston Sunday Globe, p.A-31), there were 15 per 1,000.
Some of those are going to be 'no vote made for President' at all but some will be discernable votes. Unless they are actually counted we can't know...
I'm gonna get heat for this I bet <G>, but why can't they just count the darn things? Then we would know. |
