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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (3067)	11/22/2000 2:49:46 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

If the ballot was dimpled and a candidate was punched out [in the chad sense] then the intent of the voter was clearly the punch out and wouldn't contribute to an overcount. This point is being debated right now in court, according to a poster on the Bush thread. The democrat lawyers want all dimples to be included as equal weight votes. The canvassing board quite rightly points out the potential for overvotes, i.e. a hole punched out and a dimple on the same ballot. Of course, it would be easy to make a case that a voter punched out one name by mistake and then punched a dimple for the one he intended to vote for.