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To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (85293)	11/13/2000 9:36:59 AM
From: Don Lloyd	Respond to of 132070

Wayne - My guess is that this claim has about as much credibility as the idea that the ballot was illegal. There's a lot of pond scum down there that is not at all interested in truth. Just a note on the Palm Beach ballots. The supposed confusion was NOT due to the ballot itself, but rather to the fact that the initial copy of the ballot that the Democratic 'fixers', for lack of a better word, received did NOT include the Buchanon bubble in position 2. Thus, as they prepared their cheat sheets and programmed their voters, they quite reasonably assumed that telling people to just punch the second bubble would result in a GORE vote. When the Democrats say that there was a lot of confusion when the Buchanon bubble appeared on the ballot, they REALLY weren't kidding. It apparently took half the day or so for the Democrats to recover and create new cheat sheets, which were then admittedly illegally supplied to voters within the polling place in some cases. Of course, this law breaking is hardly worth mentioning, as Democrats are unable to help themselves in this regard, and this work is probably as close as these people can come to private sector employment. So the confusion was due to a Democratic mistake, not the ballots themselves. Regards, Don