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

To: DOUG H who wrote (78838)	11/16/2000 8:52:51 PM
From: TheLineMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Don't expect any help from the Feds: "In addition, if voters are not careful, paper bits called ``chad'' can remain attached to the back of the punch card and work their way back into the holes that were punched. In 1987 it was found that ballots cast in predominantly black wards in the city of St. Louis were more than three times as likely to be improperly punched -- and therefore not counted -- as those cast in predominantly white wards. A federal judge subsequently ruled that the punch card system ``denies blacks an equal opportunity with whites to participate in the political process.'' The judge ordered the city to increase voter education in black wards and count improperly marked ballots by hand research.att.com

To: DOUG H who wrote (78838)	11/16/2000 9:08:36 PM
From: zonkie	Respond to of 769670

I don't subscribe to the theory that he might have used the box to punch a bunch of ballots. If someone is buying a vote they don't have any way of knowing if the person they bought the vote from voted the way they want unless the person selling his vote brings back the ballot he didn't fill out. Thus only a few ballots are needed for the illegal vote scheme because they get new ones every time someone votes. Around here in the early 60's (before I was old enough to vote) you could buy a vote with half a pint of whiskey. I don't know what it is now or if it is even done.