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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (85224)	11/12/2000 3:29:59 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Skeets, I don't know any details about the 26k republican-area ballots you say were tossed. If that's so, I don't understand why the republicans weren't calling for a recount instead of a) trying to hold onto a noise-level lead, and b) suddenly trying to pretend that manual recounts are unamerican. Talk about circumstantial ethics!

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (85224)	11/13/2000 9:02:22 AM
From: wsringeorgia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Skeeter, I must confess that I don't have the data either. The point that I am trying to make is this; there are basically two types of automatic vote counting, both photoelectric. The older type, called thru-beam or transmission requires the voter to poke a hole in the ballot. The more modern type called retro-reflective requires the voter to make a mark on the ballot. For a whole bunch of reasons the latter should be much more reliable and have a lower percentage of miscounts. In fact it should be as reliable as the bar code reader at the checkout down at the Walmart. In those counties where the Republicans claim high rejects maybe the older system was in use there; I don't know. But here next door in Georgia only the cities have the punched ballot system; everywhere out in the rural areas (Bush territory) the more modern systems are employed. Heck, back when Atlanta purchased their first vote counting machines we could barely afford traffic lights, much less those things and I would imagine rural Florida was much the same. WSR