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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: DMaA who wrote (129436)2/27/2001 3:20:49 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 769667
 
My question, which is still unanswered, is:

If the Florida elections officials had followed the same careful counting procedures that the state of Washington officials followed, what would have been the result, assuming the same set of ballots?

In Washington, ballots that were machine-unreadable were manually inspected and counted if voter intent could be clearly determined; e.g. if a voter had marked an optical scan ballots with the wrong kind of pen so it couldn't be scanned but could be easily read by a human.

Some Florida counties did this, but most just ignored machine-unreadable ballots, even when they amounted to more than 5% or 10% of the total. It was a tremendously shoddy process.

I think we'll have the closest approximation to this answer that we can get after the press review of all the undervotes and overvotes is completed.

BTW Bush put the country through hell when he decided to fight any & all recounts, and for nothing as it turns out. Any candidate who loses an election by 0.01% of the vote deserves a recount, especially an election with as many irregularities as this one. A contested election is not a Constitutional crisis -- or it wasn't before the Supreme Court did its Bush vs. Gore power grab.
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