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To: TH who wrote (95184)	11/30/2000 1:25:03 AM
From: Mr. Whist	Respond to of 769667

TH: The guest may have been referring to the fact that the poorer counties in Florida have inferior voting equipment. The paper ballot rejection rate in Florida was higher among poor, inner-city precincts, as opposed to the GOP-dominated suburbs, where the equipment is usually better. I'm not talking about "user error." I'm talking about old, outdated equipment and machines that don't read cards so good anymore. I would hope that both the Republicans and Democrats, based on what happened in Florida, could agree that newer, easier-to-use, more sophisticated equipment is what is needed throughout the state. Hell, even Kentucky has voting machines in every county in the state, with the exception of a few precincts in Louisville. Story in the paper yesterday noted that a recount could have been done lickety-split in Kentucky had the vote been close. Florida, of course, has a lot more people than Kentucky. But what works in one state should work in other states. I'll see if I can track down some numbers on minority voting on Nov. 7, although I haven't seen much written about that on the several major-city daily newspapers that I try to read once or twice a week on the Internet. This statistic has gotten lost amidst the drama in Florida.

To: TH who wrote (95184)	11/30/2000 1:56:01 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

Someone posted an article that talked about the fact that in Palm county many votes were cast incorrectly because privately created palm cards did not match the ballot. A palm card is some likeness of the ballot and identifies by position how to vote. But the palm cards distributed in the thousands to elderly were in error. As to minority screwup increase. Ok the dems did a great job of getting out the black or whatever minority vote and how many of these folks maybe went and did as to do otherwise they would be castigated. But the new higher percentage that was reached now included many who may never have voted before and maybe they are good citizens but avoided voting because they were fully or functionally or almost illerate. But they were embarrassed to mention it and just did the booth thing and punched some holes and sneaked their card into the box and said nothing. So Gee, a lot of messed up votes by people who went through the social motion of voting but had no way to know what they were expressing. Is this a reason for why all the screwed up votes if the percentage is higher. No one in that community will admit this. No one is this community will look into this and thus these people condemn those who could be helped to go through the same motions in the next election. The problems with democrat liberals is they all want to blame someone outside for all the problems instead of looking inside for the real cause. But that is the nature of poor liberals and the rich liberal are not really high on looking to closely at anything anyway and most times the numbers even with the noise go mostly the way they want. If liberals work on educating these people and teach them to read then they are likely to become republicans. Now you can't have that. Tom Watson tosiwmee