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Strategies & Market Trends : Steve's Channelling Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Lee who wrote (7627)	11/10/2000 2:50:11 PM
From: Dave B	Respond to of 30051

Steve, In democracy, there are rules which are made up by elected lawmakers. One of those rules states that spoiled ballot papers are not valid. It is not right to change the democratically arrived at rules when one has decided an election has not gone their way. Why did the democrats not change this "confusing" voting slip before the election? Agreed. Also, the ballot layout was published in the newspaper and the voter materials. If someone doesn't care enough to do a little homework ahead of time, then I have no sympathy with them when they make a "mistake". Also, after further thought, I realize you can't easily provide a mechanism for turning in a screwed-up ballot to start over. There's too much opportunity for those mistaken ballots to sneak back into the election results. I don't know what the answer is, other than people should be responsible for their own actions (in this case, not doing their homework ahead of time). Dave <edit: Just saw Bruce's note that the 19,000 votes were a box of ballots turned back in as "mistakes" for new ballots. I don't know if that's true, but it certainly reinforces my point above if so.>