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

To: fuzzymath who wrote (99153)	12/3/2000 1:30:36 AM
From: Selectric II	Respond to of 769667

What the he** are you doing here? I want you in Tallahassee by 9:00 am this morning. 7-1/2 hours from now. Didn't you get served with a subpoena?

To: fuzzymath who wrote (99153)	12/3/2000 1:33:27 AM
From: amadeus	Respond to of 769667

fuzzymath, here is the false assumption: a statewide count of all undervotes for counties that used Broward-type punch card ballots would result in a net gain for George W. Bush, assuming the undervotes were distributed evenly statewide. While I do not have the statewide data on this, a look at the locations of the counties that use punch card ballots suggests a fairly even distribution. here is the data he did not have: . In the most heavily white precincts, about 1 in 14 ballots were thrown out, but in largely black precincts more than 1 in 5 ballots were spoiled – and in some black precincts it was almost one-third. . A computer analysis of election returns suggests there were anomalies in the Florida vote, particularly in African American areas. The more black and Democratic a precinct, the more likely it was to suffer high rates of invalidated votes.... Some 40 percent of the state’s black voters were new voters, and election experts say they were the most vulnerable to confusion about oddly designed ballots. Moreover, a higher percentage of blacks than whites live in counties with voting machines more prone to not registering a vote. And similarly, African American voters are somewhat more likely to live in areas where poll workers do not immediately check ballots for errors – so blacks were less likely than whites to get a chance to correct their ballots if they messed them up.... msnbc.com Senior GOP strategists say privately that a key reason the Bush campaign did not ask for a statewide recount was it feared that Gore would pick up more votes than Bush, because of the high rate of ballot spoilage in black precincts.