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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (39349)	11/20/2000 2:56:53 PM
From: AllansAlias	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

What in the name of all that is good and sensible do you think it would take to get a real spike in p/c's. They amaze me almost everyday. I suppose it goes back to the inverted reinforcement loop. On the way up we were propelled by disbelief and then buying panic. Turn it over for relentless down.

To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (39349)	11/20/2000 3:47:15 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

<.a new profession has been born too...the 'voter intent diviner'. the ballots should be renamed 'guess-sheets'... > correct... it used to be simply a hole punched in the ballot... now it's simply being taken to the next level: a 'graze' mark, 'dimple' or other microscopic indentation caused by resting the puncher on a hole while thinking, etc. Psychologists are testifying that this action combined thinking long enough about punching a hole may actually constitute a 'positive response'. Positive responses among elderly voters could be signified by multiple small punches in many different candidates holes occuring when age related nerve incapacities cause voters with to probe for the correct spot which, when finally found culminates in one large 'reemed out' hole upon the correct hole being found. These votes had been previously discarded. dAK