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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Northern Marlin who wrote (8354)	12/4/2000 9:41:47 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Philip, My conclusions were based on published reports on CNN, Time, The Washington Post, and the Miami Herald. It's an opinion, but hardly mine alone anymore. I've published links many times on this thread and the GW Bush thread. Go to CNN and search for "voting machines". Voting populations, patterns, and voting machines in use are in the public record. That the OpScan machines have a much lower error rate than the old Holerith-style punch card machines has been discussed many times. The punch card machines miss some real votes, due to hanging chad, partially punched chad, etc. Also voters sometimes don't follow the rules, for example, they may write on the ballot instead of punching it. When you count by hand, you find the votes. Since most of the punch card ballots were in Democratic areas, naturally Gore would have an edge in the recounts, even without bending over backwards to read dimpled chads. I believe Florida law limits the recount request to 4 counties. Gore asked for the largest Democratic punch card counties (Volusia as well as the ones you mention), naturally. The butterfly ballot question is different. My conclusion is that when 3400 voted for Buchanan in a county where he expected to get 400 votes, the confusion wasn't invented by telemarketers.