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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Knight who wrote (112455)	12/12/2000 3:29:16 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) of 769670

1) A chad where no corners are detached (e.g. a "dimpled" or "pregnant" chad, or a "tri-chad") shall not be counted as a vote unless the ballot contains a pattern of dimpled chads. (If the voter punched chads all the way through in some races, they demonstrated that they knew how to properly vote; hence, you cannot assume that they intended to vote in the presidential race if they didn't punch it all the way through. The voter's intent was not clear.) As a hypothetical, if a voter started by pushing firmly, but not firmly enough to dislodge the chad but eventually broke through, wouldn't that voter be inclined to continue pushing through from that point on? My point being, there will be some problematic ballots that deserve arbitration, or the opinion of the chief judge or something. It might be easy to say the chad must bulge by X-micrometers, but what if the chad was pushed back into position by running through the card reader. Again, humans can see these things and arbitrary rules and machines cannot. TP

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