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To: Katherine Derbyshire who wrote (39283)	11/8/2000 7:31:09 PM
From: Alan Siegal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

YAG! Is this self-explanatory? Do I circle the arrow? Does it point to a checkbox? How about indicating the number somewhere? Will one of our Florida friends please explain it to me. -Dumber than ever, Alan

To: Katherine Derbyshire who wrote (39283)	11/8/2000 7:43:34 PM
From: Jerome	Respond to of 70976

>>There's a photo of an actual Florida ballot here:<< Don't confuse us with the facts. This election stuff is serious business. Jerome

To: Katherine Derbyshire who wrote (39283)	11/8/2000 7:55:16 PM
From: Robert O	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Thanks, for some reason the earlier posted Rush L. link didn't work link that I found works is: rushlimbaugh.com But Katherine and many here: y'all are, it's fair to say, engineer types (some might say geeks, but those people can shove it where the star that is the basis of our solar system and sustains our life with a mean distance from Earth of about 150 million kilometers [of course equal to 93 million miles] and a diameter of 1,390,000 kilometers [864,000 miles] and a mass of 330,000 times that of Earth... don't shine). Anywho, given all that, what say you to the idea that darn it this ain't rocket science...sure the ballot is not all that confusing but WHY IN THE WORLD does there need to be almost ANY confusion. I mean even in my Great State of Illinois, the Bush tix was item number one yet the punch was actually one row down on number two... the Dems followed as item two (same side of page) but punch three. If one follows the arrows he should be okay, but G forbid that we use a mechanism that allows a voter to actually confirm the vote he has made is correctly identified on the circa 1930? IBM clone punchcard. For a moment I thought I was taking the SAT all over again ;-( Plus, the little punchy tool (please enlighten me as to the technical name for the 'puncher') is far too small and the holes far too small for many of the elderly, infirmed, or simply uncoordinated to handle correctly, or at least easily. What is going on that in the year 2000 this is the best our great Republic can offer to its fine citizenry? Don't you engineers have a union or something that could focus on this? ...On second thought maybe keep those Union types of this project! RO