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

To: DavesM who wrote (289133)	8/22/2002 12:51:10 AM
From: Steve Dietrich	Respond to of 769670

Well people ought to vote for whomever they like, whether it's Nader, Buchanan, Perot, etc. That's democracy. And states ought to accurately record and count a voter's vote. That too is democracy. Gore lost about 6,500 votes due to overvotes on those Palm Beach County ballots. It's hard to imagine all those people intending to vote for two candidates and then lying about it due to embarrassment as you seem to speculate. As for those retired folks who screwed up, they may not be as sharp as they were when they were young (I know my parents aren't) but to say they're too stupid to have their votes count as jlallen does, says a whole lot more about him than it does about them. This from: gopbi.com "Election 2000: Over-votes cost Gore the election in FL By Joel Engelhardt and Scott McCabe, Palm Beach Post Staff Writers WEST PALM BEACH -- Confusion over Palm Beach County's butterfly ballot cost Al Gore about 6,600 votes, more than 10 times what he needed to overcome George W. Bush's slim lead in Florida and win the presidency, The Palm Beach Post's ballot-by-ballot review of discarded over-votes reveals. The ballots show 5,330 Palm Beach County residents, many of them in Democratic strongholds, invalidated their ballot cards by punching chads for Gore and Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan, whose hole on the punch card appeared just above Gore's. The ballots also show another 2,908 voters punched Gore's name along with Socialist David McReynolds, the candidate whose hole on the card appeared just below Gore's. Both Buchanan's and McReynolds' names appeared on the right page of the two-page ballot, while Gore's was on the left. The butterfly ballot confusion didn't hurt just Gore: 1,631 people punched both for Bush and the candidate whose hole was below his on the ballot, Buchanan. The two Gore combinations, minus the Bush-Buchanan votes, add up to 6,607 lost votes for Gore and an indictment of the butterfly ballot, political experts and partisan observers agree."