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To: sandeep who wrote (49219)	11/11/2000 6:55:20 AM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 94695

Here is a detailed account of a news item that I came across about why people were upset with the ballot in Palm Beach. Problems In Palm Beach Democrats have focused on Palm Beach County in particular, where 19,120 ballots were disqualified because voters punched holes for more than one candidate, possibly out of confusion for the way the ballot was set up. Numerous complaints have emerged from voters and Democratic officials who said the ballot was confusing because Gore was listed SECOND but was the THIRD punch hole on the ballot, a so-called ``butterfly ballot.'' Democrats said that discrepancy led voters in the county to vote for Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan who was listed across the ballot from Bush but was the SECOND punch hole. Those who realized that and tried to punch the same ballot for Gore thus invalidated their ballots. Additionally, some of the holes may not have been punched all the way through, which is needed for the computers to read the vote. A Palm Beach County Commissioner, Carol Roberts, one of three members of the board, will supervise a hand canvass of 4,100 ballots at 9 a.m. (1400 GMT) Saturday as under state law that represents one percent of the total votes cast in the county. ``We'll all sit down as civilized human beings and we'll ask the Democratic Party to tell us which three precincts they want to pick,'' she said. Local media in Oregon projected Gore would win the state's seven electoral votes, still three short of the magic 270 needed to win the White House. Gore's lead all but eroded in New Mexico where a recount of 67,000 ballots slashed his lead to 119 votes with about 600 ballots left to count, Gov. Gary Johnson said on CNN. However, the state's five electoral votes are not expected to affect the outcome of the election unless Republicans challenge results in other states trying to win more electoral votes that have been put in Gore's column. dailynews.yahoo.com. PS: re NBC, I recall when Clinton was first elected. Brokaw and John Chancellor would sit around, discuss the election and Chancellor's eyes would light up at the mention of all the potential problems: Whitewater. He'd get all excited and say, this will be a one-time presidency. Also, I recall rude remarks that were repeated on the networks about Mrs. Gore helping Mrs. Clinton out with health-care reform, and in general, I felt the news reports about Mrs. Clinton were always negative. Re: the invalidity of the ballot. The national news networks showed a copy of the ballot on the Nightly news and said that the box for the candidate should be directly across from the candidate's name. They mentioned that the ballot might be invalid. I had learned only that day that people complained about the ballot. At that time I chose to believe the information from the major networks who said that the placement of the names on the ballot was considered to be very important. This is an exciting election, and we learn new details as events unfold so I am sorry if I did not respond clearly to someone's post. For your information, the absentee ballots in the state of Washington were presented with the candidate's name and a box that you filled in if you wanted to vote for that candidate was directly across from the candidates name. The ballot was very, very clear even though it was almost impossible to understand the initiatives, and I would not have been able to do so without a pamphlet from the Governor's office that explained the legalese. As far as NBC goes, my husband dislikes NBC Nightly News because Tom Brokaw is unable to repeat the news in complete sentences. Instead, we switched to ABC news with Peter Jennings. His sentences are clear and we feel that there aren't as many commercials. Again, let me say that I don't expect you to agree. If we all agreed, we would be stuck with one major network, but my feelings about NBC's reporting practices go back for many, many years.