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

To: Neocon who wrote (110619)	12/11/2000 5:56:32 PM
From: mst2000	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

YO, NEO: Here is the text of Texas' law on Manual Recounts as it relates to punch ballots: "Subject to Subsection (e), in any manual count conducted under this code, a vote on a ballot on which a voter indicates a vote by punching a hole in the ballot may not be counted unless: (1) at least two corners of the chad are detached; (2) light is visible through the hole; (3) an indentation on the chad from the stylus or other object is present and indicates a clearly ascertainable intent of the voter to vote; or (4) the chad reflects by other means a clearly ascertainable intent of the voter to vote. (e) Subsection (d) does not supersede any clearly ascertainable intent of the voter." In other words, dimpled chads may be counted, and Section (e) takes it a step further by providing a "catch-all" under which a ballot showing voter intent can be counted even if there is no dimpled chad. There is no doubt that this standard is broader than the one used by Palm Beach County, about the same as the one used by Broward, and is one that any Gore supporter would be happy to have utilized in Florida. Too bad Bush is too big a hypocrite to acknowledge that he signed this into law, and that it shows that manually recounting punch ballots to determine voter intent on undervotes is not tantamount to stealing. It would be gracious at this point to admit that your interpretation of Texas law was WRONG. I'll be back with Florida law shortly. MST