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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (1471)	1/26/2001 10:43:48 PM
From: ecommerceman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

this is kinda funny... 216.33.240.250

To: Mephisto who wrote (1471)	1/27/2001 6:36:51 AM
From: ecommerceman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Post Says Gore Suffered Most From Spoiled Votes Saturday January 27 12:29 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Florida voters who spoiled their ballots last November because they punched more than one presidential candidate's name were three times more likely to vote for Al Gore (news - web sites) than for the ultimate winner, President George W. Bush (news - web sites), the Washington Post reported on Saturday. Citing its own review of computerized records for 2.7 million votes in eight of Florida's largest counties, the Washington Post said Democratic voters who intended to vote for former Vice President Gore were more likely to have invalidated their ballots than Republican voters supporting Bush. ``According to the Post's analysis, the biggest problem for Gore was in 'overvotes', ballots invalidated because voters indicated multiple choices for president,'' the newspaper said. The Post's analysis showed that Gore was by far most likely to be selected on invalid overvoted ballots, with his name punched as one of the choices on 46,000 of them. Bush, by comparison, was punched on 17,000. A dispute over votes in Florida led to a delay of more than a month before the election was finally decided by the Supreme Court. The article said Democratic votes also appeared to have been disproportionately affected because of Palm Beach County's ''butterfly ballot'' where many people said they inadvertently voted for Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan (news - web sites). The study found that the 8,000 voters whose ballots were thrown out because they chose Gore and one of the two other presidential candidates listed near him voted more than 10 to 1 Democratic in the U.S. Senate race. The Post's review indicated that problems with voting machinery resulted in thousands of voters who went to the polls only to have none of their ballots in any races counted. Voting experts told the Post that the apparent tendency of Democratic voters to have a higher spoilage rate thanRepublicans was due to the fact that Democrats managed to motivate many newer and first-time voters who were not familiar with the voting equipment.