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

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (8889)	12/13/2000 8:30:10 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

If this information was in evidence in any case it would probably have been in the one that challenged the constitutionality of the butterfly ballot. That suit, I understand, was not brought by the Dem party or Gore's team, but a private attorney. And it lost, as you know. My information comes from my brother who is a journalist and spent a week in PBC and Tallahassee. The two counties that had ballots that contradicted the instructions were PBC and Duval. In PBC the instruction was "Vote on every Page", but the Presidential choices on that ballot were split into two pages. Now it sounds stupid for someone not to understand that only one choice for president can be made, but there was enough confusion produce 19K overvotes. In Duval, the instruction had to do with voting for each "group". I don't know the exact wording, but the result was that people thought they had to punch once for president and once for vice president, rather than the Pres. and VP "grouped" together. The result there was another 10K overvotes.