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

To: kvkkc1 who wrote (109506)	12/10/2000 4:51:01 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I think, in all fairness, that the Votomatic machines sometimes fail to properly record a vote. That is what Ahmanns testified to, one of the engineers who helped develop the machines and holds a number of patents. But he also testified that if the voter tries to vote and the chad doesn't come all the way off, it will be partly torn off, or in a very few instances have a clear stylus shaped mark on it. He further testified that it is possible to make bumps on the chads by handling the punchcard improperly, bumping with jewelry, fingernails, running through the machine, etc. I would have no problem with manually reviewing ballots to see if there were torn chads or ones with stylus shaped marks that had not torn through. I have no problem with the way that Palm Beach reviewed the ballots, I think they followed the instructions that come from the manufacturer. But that wasn't good enough for Gore. I have asked numerous Gore supporters whether they would be satisfied with the standards testified to by the man who helped invent the machine, and they would not be. I also don't think it's right to only recount "no" votes in counties where Gore won. To be fair, every ballot should be reviewed.