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To: Math Junkie who wrote (39355)	11/9/2000 2:17:11 PM
From: willcousa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

To know the meaning of the 19,000 invalid votes you must know what the normal rate of invalid votes is. I remember being taught in grammar school the importance of not spoiling a ballot. If the invalid votes resulted from two votes for president (as I have heard) what do you do about it? Flip a coin? If you have a revote who gets to revote? Those who voted before or everyone? If you allowed those who think they voted wrong to vote again how will you know they in fact voted wrong in the first place? How do you know how they voted before to throw that earlier vote out? Take their word for it? What if you suspect they have no earthly idea how they voted before?

To: Math Junkie who wrote (39355)	11/9/2000 4:15:58 PM
From: Robert O	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

ot? For diehard AMAT on topic fans our apologies, this is too important a topic for our entire economy not to present to sharp minds for feedback. Now onto the rant.. Rich if a person punches the card for TWO presidents, baby they KNOW the card is worthless. Right? I mean that's it. At that point they need to ask for another card or recognize as they walk out the card is invalid. There is another possibility you know. I'd be interested to know how many cards are multiple punched for Pres. Perhaps, and this is NOT out of the question, some voters feel that they are being asked who they would vote for so they indicate just that, i.e., they would vote for Gore and Nader. So they punch both. It's funny but I was NEVER told not to vote for more than one candidate! Of course somewhere in writing it must tell you only pick one. Now, your point this may be indicative of fraud is more troubling and I imagine the Judge is investigating that aspect. It's ironic, our States' lotto each week is better 'audited' and controlled than these elections. Perhaps that can be explained because private accounting firms play that role not the government. RO

To: Math Junkie who wrote (39355)	11/9/2000 7:15:13 PM
From: Claude	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 70976

OT - re: 19000 votes rejected I was troubled by this as well until NPR mentioned that in '96 with a lower voter turnout about 15,000 were rejected. More troubling for me is the electoral college - not sure how you Americans live with this antiquated notion. I am very surprised that the fact that Gore has close to 200K more votes than Bush is not getting more airplay. I guess no network wants to be seen as adding fuel to the fire. Of course in Canada we still have an unelected Senate and the US has been allowed to elect their senators since 1913! Claude (rhymes with TOAD)