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To: Meathead who wrote (115849)	12/14/2000 12:49:41 PM
From: George Coyne	Respond to of 769670

Why would so many people vote for more than one candidate? Simple answer. They wouldn't! Double punched presidential ballots happened at 10 times the rate in Palm Beach Co. as in any other. Pretty clear statistical evidence for tampering to me. Result was invalidation of non Gore votes.

To: Meathead who wrote (115849)	12/14/2000 12:55:56 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Overvotes should be inspected. But if you really have two different candidates selected, recording a vote for one of them would be mind-reading indeed. We know that a large number of overvotes were created in Duval and Palm Beach counties due to the ballot and/or instruction confusions. Otherwise, the main purpose in examining overvotes would be to determine why they occurred.

To: Meathead who wrote (115849)	12/14/2000 1:18:05 PM
From: Selectric II	Respond to of 769670

During the Miami-Dade hand undervote recounts (before the Supremes stepped in), the judges came across several ballots that had NO marks, punches, dimples, or anything, for ANY race. They were blank. The judges laughed, and wondered aloud why those people even bothered going to the polls, just to cast blank ballots. I have a speculation about what happened. After the polls closed, maybe somebody removed ballots that were cast for the "wrong" person and replaced them with blank ballots to make the precinct count come out right, knowing that they would go through the machines as undervotes and not suspecting that they would ever be looked at.