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To: Barry Grossman who wrote (118778)	11/21/2000 9:06:52 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 186894

Barry, I can't believe we are getting into the dimple debate. But here goes. re: "You never commented about my assertion that if only one vote is dimpled and the rest of the votes on the ballot are not, how can one say that the voter intended to vote for the dimpled choice when all the other choices he made on the ballot were chadless. A lone dimple on a chadless ballot should not qualify as a vote." The first question would be, why would there be a dimple on the chad, if someone hadn't pressured it with a very sharp, pointed object? Assuming there isn't some type of vote fraud, it would have to be done with the stylus, in the voting booth. The answer to your question, I suppose, is that the person didn't press the stylus down as hard on that particular vote. I voted with the punch card system. It's not like you get any reassuring feel that the chad was removed. I looked at my ballot afterwards to make sure there were holes in it, but I would never have thought to check each one. If you think about it, a dimple might be more convincing than if one or two corners were loosened, which could happen by accidentally catching the card on a fingernail or something. How else would a dimple get there? There, I got my dimple/chad thoughts off my mind. John

To: Barry Grossman who wrote (118778)	11/21/2000 11:01:58 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Respond to of 186894

On the other hand, if there were a plethora of dimples on a ballot, one could infer that the voter did intend those dimples to be votes. Make sense? I believe it does. I would accept a dimpled chad as a vote if I noticed maybe 3 other dimpled chads in other races on the same ballot. Good point. THE WATSONYOUTH