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To: Don Pueblo who wrote (97836)	12/1/2000 8:07:11 PM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Tastes Like Chicken, you're a good person, but that's totally goofy. >>>u said>>>>The fact is that if a punchcard ballot (or ANY ballot) does not exhibit a clear intention of the voter, then the ballot is not a vote, by definition.<<< What you say is not a fact. Florida state law says that if the intention of the voter can be ascertained then it is a vote. It also says hanging chads are votes. The machine can't always detect a hanging chad although in some case it can. Also if the voter writes the name of his choice for a candidate on the card it is a vote. Can the machines detect that vote?

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (97836)	12/1/2000 8:07:39 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 769667

The fact is that if a punchcard ballot (or ANY ballot) does not exhibit a clear intention of the voter, then the ballot is not a vote, by definition. This is not true. I know a million Republicans are saying it, but it's not true. There is lots of precedent, including statutes and court rulings, that say elections boards should go the extra mile to determine voter intent in a close race, not just say that the machine couldn't read it, so too bad.