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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve
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To: TraderGreg who wrote (5890)12/12/2000 4:57:48 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 6710
 
There are ballots all over the country which were cast for one candidate or another which never got tabluated into the final counted figures for one reason or another. Usually because the voter didn't follow the ballot instructions.

There will always be voters who go to the polls and fail to cast valid ballots.

The question is whether, when there has been no fraud or error (such as leaving hundreds of ballots out of the recount) and no failure in the voting machines, a group of partisan officials will be permitted to take those ballots, hold them up to their foreheads a la Karmak the Magnificent (I trust you are old enough to remember Johnny Carson) and without any standardize policies or practices say "this person really intended to vote for . . ."

We will continue to differ on this.

But even you, I think, can't deny that as far as we know every ballot which was cast in accordance with the voting instructions has been counted and recounted.
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