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

To: PartyTime who wrote (99094)	12/2/2000 11:18:46 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Thank you, Jeb Bush. Thank you Ambassador-elect Harris. Your state whose election you controlled showed some pretty telling statistics: "The analysis also confirmed that the voters in Democratic precincts had a far greater chance of having their ballots rejected. Only 1 in every 40 ballots were rejected in precincts Bush won, while 1 of every 27 ballots were rejected in precincts Gore won." Saturday, December 2, 2000, Miami Herald

To: PartyTime who wrote (99094)	12/2/2000 11:22:59 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Voting machinery played a large role in rejections. "Of the 51 precincts in which more than 20 percent of ballots were rejected, 45 of them used punch cards -- 88 percent. Of the 336 precincts in which more than 10 percent were tossed, 277 used punch cards -- 78 percent. "The overall rejection rate for the 43 optical counties was 1.4 percent. The overall rejection rate for the 24 punch-card counties was 3.9 percent. That means that voters in punch-card counties, which included urban Democratic strongholds such as Broward and Palm Beach counties, were nearly three times as likely to have their ballots rejected as those in optical counties. "In dozens of Florida precincts, at least one out of every four ballots was discarded as having no vote or too many votes for president. "Nearly half of Gore's margin, more than 11,000 extra votes, would come from Palm Beach alone. The other counties that would give him more than 1,000 new votes are Broward, Miami-Dade, Duval and Pinellas. Of those, Bush carried only Duval in the official tabulation. "Palm Beach, home of the infamous butterfly ballot, and Duval, where candidate's names were spread across two pages, had 31 percent of the uncounted ballots, but only 12 percent of the total votes cast. "More than 11 percent of precincts statewide recorded no discarded ballots." Saturday, December 2, 2000, Miami Herald