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To: Scumbria who wrote (128948)	11/22/2000 9:54:23 AM
From: Gopher Broke	Respond to of 1579758

Certain counties asked for a recount. The SC decision gave them the authority to go ahead. All counties had equal opportunity to do a hand recount. Therein lies my problem. It is the counties who are influencing the result and not the vote of the people. My feeling is that once a ballot paper is surrendered it should have a fixed value, presumably around 0.99 of a vote when spoilage is taken into account. Any spoilt ballots and erroneous counting should be a random and therefore statistically near-constant factor across all the counties. But in this case the people who voted in the majority in those counties where the recounts are taking place have a stronger vote than those in the counties which are not being recounted. What has happened to one man one vote? To support that principle the recount had to be across the board.