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To: Bruce L who wrote (78637)	11/11/2000 1:24:45 PM
From: JungleInvestor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

<<The GOP and James Baker are concerned about the unlimited and standardless discretion that would be involved in a hand re-count of ballots by local election officials in selected districts. >> Right on, Bruce!! This cuts right to the heart of the problem of manual counts. The stakes are extremely high, and now we are going down to judgement calls, with no standards, in highly democratic counties by democratic officials. There may be observers, but observers are not making the decisions. This is exactly why Gore requested hand counts in only these four counties! From an obviously biased source (Rush Limbaugh/Mary Matalin) here is a different take on the 19,000 ballots with double votes: rushlimbaugh.com Mary did some legwork on this ballot issue, and found that those 19,000 double-punched ballots were not the ballots of 19,000 people who were disenfranchised. When you double punch a ballot, it's disqualified. A ballot, which selects two candidates where only one is allowed to be chosen, is automatically disqualified. It's not discrimination or anything else. It's not new or specific to Palm Beach County. It's the law and has been for decades. Regardless, Mary Matalin called a poll worker in Palm Beach County and guess what she learned? These disputed 19,000 ballots were discarded. They came from people who went on to recast their vote after having made a mistake - a mistake that was caught and corrected. In other words, it's not 19,000 people who double punched a ballot, turned it in, then had it discovered and thrown out. These are people who knew that they had made the mistake of double punching the ballot, requested a new ballot, and recast their vote.