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To: Richard Habib who wrote (86657)	11/11/2000 5:48:09 AM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 97611

this is making the rounds: fly.hiwaay.net cute.

To: Richard Habib who wrote (86657)	11/11/2000 9:44:52 PM
From: Night Writer	Respond to of 97611

Richard, I heard on the news that a northern county has several thousand ballots voided also. It appears the whole state should be hand counted not just the counties selected by the Democrats. NW

To: Richard Habib who wrote (86657)	11/12/2000 6:44:34 PM
From: Jimbo Cobb	Respond to of 97611

Don't forget heavily Republican Duval county, where approx 25,000 ballots were discarded for having either multiple or duplicate presidential votes....it would seem those would have to be recounted manually if Palm Beach is going to be recounted manually, no ???? This could just go on and on and on until every county in every questionable state (Florida, New Mexico, Iowa, Oregon, Wisconsin, at a minimum) has hand-counted every single ballot....anything less of that (hand-counting a few hand-picked Democratic stronghold counties, especially) doesn't seem quite fair to me.... Jimbo.

To: Richard Habib who wrote (86657)	11/13/2000 9:29:44 AM
From: Senator949	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Surely as tech investors we can get a handle on what is fundamentally a technical issue. What I don't understand is why they use this 1960's technology, "punched cards". If they're too darned lazy to manually count hand marked (clear X in the box) ballots why don't they at least use 21st century technology. What I could see as acceptable would be a touch screen system where the voter would touch the name of the candidate choice on a list and then the machine would come back and say your choice for "position" was "so and so" and then ask for confirmation. Once the voter had made all appropriate choices a printed receipt would be delivered to the voter to scan for accuracy. Once the voter left the booth he/she would turn in the verified printed receipt which would only be used if a manual recount was necessitated. Robin