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To: Solon who wrote (83994)11/21/2000 8:33:00 PM
From: Scrapps  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
It don't make no sense that common sense don't make no sense no more. -John Prine

The right to vote is our right...so is the responsibility of voting correctly and checking for chads on your own ballot before turning it in. If the hole isn't punched out it's not a vote. Nothing in the instructions says to dimple a ballot.

Next thing we'll have is basketball players claiming they should get the two points, because the ball went around the hoop, but fell out the top...he'll argue his intent was for it to go down through the hoop so he should be credited the points.



To: Solon who wrote (83994)11/21/2000 10:57:27 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
I believe that a broken chad has been punched hard enough to indicate a firm impulse

I believe that someone who does not vote frequently, and is confronted with the first punch on the ballot, will press until he feels like it's going to tear the ballot and then stop. Everyone assumes that the voters know they are supposed to be tearing the ballot paper, but not all the voters know that.

TP


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