To: kvkkc1 who wrote (79605 ) 11/17/2000 1:39:57 PM From: benwood Read Replies (1) | Respond to If the butterfly ballot had been used all over the country, there would likely have been a million errors on the presidential ballot. In Palm Beach, they had over 6x the duplication errors on the presidential vote as on the senatorial vote (which was not butterfly). It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see where the problem was. The reality is that the ballot will have given the election to Bush. Any dispute of the reality is simply to sooth one's own feelings about the legitimacy. Why doesn't some GOP supporter just stand up and say, "Thank Gawd for that lousy ballot, or we'd be stuck with Gore for four years. Finders keepers, losers weepers!" Come on, be men (even if you are a woman!) and admit it! Bush won a flawed election! Who said life was fair? Are you really going to spend the next four years trying to convince your friends that it was an accurate count of the people's intentions?officials that there was a problem. Why poke fun at the IQ's of the voters when you have those folks going against a mountain of evidence. To me, that indicates somebody was rather proud of that ballot layout and pacified their own ego rather than make an admission that it was not a good idea. Who knew it would put a different person in the White House?
