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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J D B who wrote (95699)	11/30/2000 1:40:33 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 769667

slate.msn.com "Terrell also spoke fiction in comparing the Miami nonvote tally to figures from other states. Only Idaho (5 percent), not Wyoming (3.6 percent) or Illinois (3.8 percent), had a higher rate of "nonvotes" than Dade County (4.4 percent), according to the Bush campaign's own numbers. These are all very high rates, mostly attributable to the same problem that occurred in much of Florida: punch-card systems that produce dangling and dimpled chad and then can't read them. These undervotes weren't counted by hand in other states because they clearly didn't matter. The margin of victory for either candidate in Illinois, Wyoming, and Idaho was larger than the total number of nonvotes in the presidential race. Had Bush lost Illinois by 1,000 or so votes, you can bet he'd be screaming for a hand recount...." "....But the more significant deception is Cheney's broader assertion that the 10,000 undervotes in Miami-Dade merely reflect voters failing to make a choice among the candidates. This clearly isn't so. The optical scanning system used elsewhere in Florida produces approximately one-fourth the number of undervotes that punch-card systems do (.4 percent vs. 1.5 percent). The problem isn't that Miami voters--or those in Broward County, Palm Beach County, or elsewhere--are four times less likely to express a choice for president. It's that the machine used to count their votes is much worse at detecting their preferences...."