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To: John Stichnoth who wrote (19185)	11/9/2000 6:05:36 AM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 29987

OT -- Florida electors are legally bound to cast ballots according to the results. I don't know whether the information exists yet as to the distribution of holes in invalid ballots. All that has been released so far are the results of the presidential race, and the fact that 19,100 ballots have an invalid presidential portion (2 or more holes punched). Here are the results of the presidential ballot: PRESIDENT & VICE PRESIDENT Precincts Counted 531 100.00% Absentee Precincts Counted 106 100.00% Registered Voters 656694 100.00% Ballots Cast 461988 70.35% PRESIDENT & VICE PRESIDENT George W. Bush & Dick Cheney 152846 35.36% Al Gore & Joe Lieberman 268945 62.21% Harry Browne & Art Olivier 743 0.17% Ralph Nader & Winona LaDuke 5564 1.29% James Harris & Margaret Trowe 45 0.01% John Hagelin & Nat Goldhaber 143 0.03% Pat Buchanan & Ezola Foster 3407 0.79% David McReynolds & Mary Cal Hollis 302 0.07% Howard Phillips J. Curtis Frazier 188 0.04% Monica Moorehead & Gloria La Riva 103 0.02% From the above one can deduce that 29,702 ballots are either invalid or express no preference. The invalid percentage is 4.11%, 5 times greater than for the other races. I don't think that the machines we have for counting the votes break down the invalid ballots by which holes were punched. They just put all the multiply punched ballots in one category: invalid. One possible outcome of this tragedy of American democracy should be to replace the antiquated 19th century technology used to cast and count votes in Florida and many other states. The only "good" thing about it is the armies of poll workers it keeps employed at election time.