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To: PartyTime who wrote (114372)	12/13/2000 12:38:50 PM
From: BG Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Party Time: Let me see if I can make my point more clearly... I don't know the answer to your hypothetical questions. <g>

To: PartyTime who wrote (114372)	12/13/2000 12:44:04 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Different principles apply. One's an application for a ballot, and a ministerial act of doing something that might just as easily have been pre-printed on the application, and but for a printing error, would have been. The other is the voter's only act on the actual ballot, and by its very nature is the only evidence of the voter's intent. A better question might be, what if someone other than the voter cleans off the loose chad from the back of the ballot? (The elections personnel do.) Does it invalidate the ballot? (No.)

To: PartyTime who wrote (114372)	12/13/2000 12:46:59 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

You do not seem to understand. You might have a point if there were any way of disentangling the ballots that had not been properly applied for from the others, but there was not, and therefore no ballots were thrown out. In any event, considering that it is legal to assist the voter in making application, with his consent, and that the consent can be considered implied by the desire to make application, the applications were in broad conformity once the numbers were entered. But more than this, if a voter has a query or needs a fresh ballot, there are those at the voting station prepared to assist him. Nor is the sweeping away of chads an obstacle equivalent to having to ascertain one's voter ID number. Finally, once voted, and attempt to ascertain voter intent is at least somewhat conjectural. For all of these reasons, failure to properly vote one's ballot is a more serious violation.