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

To: chomolungma who wrote (3537)	11/27/2000 4:15:33 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Respond to of 6710

Palm Beach historically never recognized dimples as valid votes. When faced with pressure to change this policy Palm Beach adopted a set of standards which basically boiled down to this: If the ballot taken as a whole shows numerous dimples, thus demonstrating that the voter was having problems making correct punches then a dimple in the presidential column may reasonably be interpreted as voter intent. If, on the other hand, the rest of the ballot is cleanly voted and the only dimple is to be found in the presidential column, then the reasonable assumption is that a voter who clearly was able to operate the ballot for some reason chose not to do so in the presidential race and the dimple should therefore not be counted. Contrast this to Broward county where the slightest imperfection was aggressively interpreted as "voter intent" independent of the context of the rest of the ballot. There's little doubt that had Broward county adopted Palm Beach county's more stringent (reasonable?) standards that there would have been hundreds of fewer votes "found" for Gore in the recount.