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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Moerman who wrote (6582)	11/18/2000 4:19:22 PM
From: williamvictor	Respond to of 10042

Paul Moerman: Two members of the Palm Beach canvassing board are Democrats and one is a Republican, the judge I think. A reporter at NPR gave an example of what she witnessed regarded objectionable ballots. She said that observers had objected to 300 ballots out some group of ballots being counted. She reported that two lawyers, one for Gore and one for Bush, inspected the 300. Between them they reached agreement on all but 2 or 3 of the ballots. So 2 or 3 of that group of 300 won't be considered unless it's absolutely necessary. Ultimately, ballots over which a disagreement remains are subject to being placed before a Court for a decision as to whether the voter intent is discernible and the votes may be cast or whether voter intent cannot be discerned and the ballots must be discarded. That's basically how it works. Hopefully, there won't be enough ballots over which the two sides disagree to make a difference, i.e., hopefully the election will be decided by a manual recount of all ballots about which there is no dispute about voter intent. That is not an unlikely scenario, but we will see.