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To: ColtonGang who wrote (87617)	11/25/2000 9:06:51 PM
From: ColtonGang	Respond to of 769670

Palm Beach's Problems Palm Beach, with its ballot-design problems and its vote- counting system, experienced the highest rate of uncounted ballots in Florida -- 22 per 1,000 votes, or 2.2 percent, compared to an average of three per 1,000 votes in the counties that didn't use the same punch-card system. Other counties that used the punch card but not the Palm Beach-style butterfly ballot averaged 15 uncounted votes per thousand. In an administrative hearing Friday morning, Democratic Party attorney Ben Kuehne presented Yale University statistician Nicolas Hengartner, who told the Palm Beach election board the odds of so many miscounted votes happening by chance ``is practically zero, and is less than being hit by lightning five times.'' The Democrats also brought in the designer of the Votomatic vote-counting machine, William Rouverol, 83, who told the Palm Beach election board that flaws in the machine frequently prevent a voter from punching through a ballot card. ``A hand count is the best way to fix the machine's shortcomings, including its ability to produce ``dimpled'' or ``pregnant'' ballots,'' Rouverol said. The testimony helped persuade the board to count more ballots than it had done before, Kuehne said Friday afternoon, although he said he didn't have specific numbers to support his assertion. Gore's advisers were particularly angered by the decision of Miami-Dade County election officials to halt their manual recount of more than 10,000 disputed ballots. County officials said it was impossible to meet the Sunday deadline. Bloomberg L.P.