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To: Don Lloyd who wrote (36447)	11/11/2000 1:49:13 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Has anyone reported what the breakdown was on the double-punched ballots? How many of them had a punch for Bush?

To: Don Lloyd who wrote (36447)	11/11/2000 4:58:59 PM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

ONLY in Palm Beach did Bush receive LESS than 65% of the registered Republican voters. (Registered Republicans = 231,626 while Bush voters = 152,954.) In every other county in FL Bush received MORE votes than there were registered Republicans. In the rest of the nation, poll results show more than 90% of registered Republicans actively supported the Republican candidate. (Also, unique in the entire state, the percentage of Republican voters COUNTED as voting in Palm Beach was much less than normal, despite the pre-election attention to Florida as a critical state; and massive Republican get-out-the-vote campaigns.)..." Don-- One piece of analysis I've heard reapeatedly in regards to Palm Beach is that there were some very unusual demographics at work in this election in that county. Republicans may have lost the edge in this county that they expected to have due to a large number of wealthy, Jewish voters who may have flipped parties this election with Lieberman on the Democrtic ticket. This might explain why less people voted for Bush than there are registered Republicans in the county.