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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Windsock who wrote (1759)	11/11/2000 1:25:13 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

I agree with you as to the applicable law, but the conclusion you seem to be drawing is that if the checkoff boxes were not all on the right then the ballot is illegal, per se. I think the law requires substantial compliance. Whether there was substantial compliance is probably subjective. So I don't think you can say that as a matter of law, the ballots are illegal. Then you have to decide whether the ballots were good enough to get the job done. More than 99% of the voters had no problem. My position is that the ballots were good enough to get the job done. If the shoe were on the other foot, I would still think that a ballot that more than 99% of people had no problem with is good enough.