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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JamesB who wrote (71098)	11/12/2000 10:51:41 AM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You may not use a punch card in your county, but it looks like it is used in other parts of Texas. The Texas code disucsses the punchcard system several times. For example, the following section explains: (a) An electronic system ballot on which a voter indicates a vote by punching a hole in the ballot must contain the following instruction if candidates are to be voted on: "Vote for the candidate of your choice in each race by making a punch hole in the space provided adjacent to the name of that candidate." If a proposition appears on the ballot, the ballot must contain the following instruction: "Make a punch hole in the space provided beside the statement indicating the way you desire to vote." (b) An electronic system ballot on which a voter indicates a vote by making a mark on the ballot must comply with Subsection (a), with the substitution of "mark" for "punch hole." (c) The instructions prescribed by Subsections (a) and (b) shall be changed appropriately if the election has only one race, more than one candidate is to be elected in a race, or other circumstances require an alteration of the instructions. (d) An electronic system ballot on which a voter indicates a vote by punching a hole in the ballot must contain the following instruction following the other required instructions: "Check your ballot after voting to make sure that the holes are actually punched through." (e) The electronic system ballot must contain instructions for casting a write-in vote. The secretary of state shall prescribe the wording of the instructions. (f) The electronic system ballot for an election in which straight-party voting is allowed must contain the instruction prescribed by Section 52.071(b) with the language relating to placing an "X" in the party square changed as appropriate to accommodate the method by which the voter indicates a vote. (g) The instructions required by this section may be placed on the punch-card ballot label instead of on the punch-card ballot.

To: JamesB who wrote (71098)	11/12/2000 11:11:45 AM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

James, I'm from Texas too, and I am also a Bush supporter all the way, but different counties in our great state have different methods of voting. When I lived in Washington County, we marked our ballots with pencil like you do, but in Harris County, we have those punch ballots like they have in Florida except the punching is on only one side of the page. Never the less, a teacher somewhere in Florida, had her 5th grade students punch an unofficial ballot exactly like the official one, and no student had a problem and voted as they had intended. It was then tried on 1st grade students, and 19 out of 25 had no problems with the ballot. By the Gore camp saying all these people could not read a simple ballot, they are saying that their own supporters are stupid, which many of them probably are, but that is no excuse for redoing an election. If they are THAT stupid, they should not be allowed to vote in the first place. ~;=;o --haqi