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To: TimF who wrote (128420)	11/13/2000 5:53:29 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570649

Tim Even with the parameters it still leaves to much as a judgement call. I would accept the handcount if it was applied state wide and was only looking for ballots that were correctly marked (rather then ones that were incorrectly marked but that seem to indicate a vote for one canidate or another) but neither of these things are true in this case. Here's an example of one error in one county that would not have been caught had there not been a hand count. <<Florida Recount Proceeding Slowly By MIKE SCHNEIDER .c The Associated Press DELAND, Fla. (Nov. 13) - Republicans and Democrats battled county by county, ballot by ballot, over further recounts in Florida's presidential election. Each new round of counting changed vote totals by dribs and drabs. < > < This portion of the article has been deleted> < > < > To avoid having its votes not counted, Volusia County filed a lawsuit in state court Monday seeking an extension of the deadline. Republicans opposed the move. The only major problem in Volusia was found in a precinct where the hand count turned up 320 ballots not previously recorded. Election officials explained that a ballot machine had inadvertently been reset on Election Day, erasing the votes from the machine's memory. AP-NY-11-13-00 1413EST Copyright 2000 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL. As for the marhsalls I don't think they have anything to do with deciding how the ballots will be counted, they only provide security for the ballots and make sure that no one tampers with them. That's exactly right...US Marshalls are there to make sure there are no irregularities. In PB County, the parameters were set up by representatives of each party sitting together and reviewing a sampling of ballots, and then determining parameters acceptable to both sides. ted