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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (38591)12/5/2000 4:38:12 PM
From: Steve Dietrich  Respond to of 64865
 
Hi Cheryl,

in the Florida counties using the optical ballots only .3% of them indicated no vote for President while in the counties using the punch cards, 1.5% of ballots were deemed by the machine count to have no vote for president.

Obviously the chances of a close enough election for this to be significant are pretty remote, but i think it's clear that if the whole state had used the same machines, Gore would have won.

In 1992 Bush Sr. "narrowly" beat Clinton in Florida by ... 100,000 votes. Gore conceded when he thought he was going to lose the state by 50,000 votes.

Steve



To: cheryl williamson who wrote (38591)12/5/2000 9:42:27 PM
From: Mephisto  Respond to of 64865
 
These punch card devices are pretty primitive. Much more so than the old IBM keypunchers

I'm speechless. It boggles the mind when you learn that many people used antique machines when they cast their ballot.

Yes, Go SUNW! And go NASDAQ market!

Best Wishes,

Mephisto


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