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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Benchman who wrote (1716)	11/21/2000 3:17:45 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Respond to of 3887

Rob, if some spoiled unmarked ballots were replaced at the request of the voter, that's interesting, and it probably reduces the number of ballots that need to be considered. I seriously doubt, however, that a spoiled ballot that had been replaced would have been counted in the same group of ballots rejected by the card reader, as that would mean double counting the ballot cards of one voter. One problem that apparently has been documented is that some voters attempted to turn in a spoiled ballot for a new one and were refused a new ballot by election officials. One voter claims that an election official took his spoiled ballot and inserted it in the ballot box, and then refused to provide the voter a new ballot form. The numbers of irregularities, perhaps on both sides, are getting to the point where if one examines the ballot cards closely, one gets the feeling that the whole process was fraught with errors, and therefore, the result, whichever way it turns out, will be illegitimate.