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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (71)	11/12/2000 11:52:47 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 3887

Excerpt:At times, the recount bordered on the ridiculous. Election officials spent hours poring over individual ballots and disagreeing over the standard used in accepting a vote. Democrats said thousands of votes in Palm Beach County and elsewhere in Florida may not have been counted by machines because the tiny piece of paper punched out for a candidate did not completely dislodge. About 30,000 ballots were rejected in Palm Beach County alone because they had two or more holes punched for president – or computers didn't detect any holes at all. In the morning, the canvassing board said they would count a vote if any of the corners of the bits of paper punched out of the cards – called "chad" – were punched. The board then decided that they would instead use the "sunlight test" – if they could see sun come though an indentation, it would count. However, according to a lawyer for the county, there was a problem with the revised standard. Even if one corner was punched, sometimes the sun wouldn't shine through. So, the standard was revised back to the corner rule, according to the lawyer Leon St. John. washingtonpost.com