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...Country where voters rejected strongman in a presidential ballot--which he defiantly dismissed...
...every vote's counting. I am not sure, however, that every ballot is a genuine vote. The canvassing boards were put in the position of determining whether a hole was punched out or not. If you and I actually think votes don't count, we are less likely to vote. It seems as if many people believe that, or voter turnout would have been greater. DONNIE McLEMORE Round Rock, Texas...
Systematic errors in machine reading of ballots almost universally result in undercounting. They occur, for example, when a chad does not separate from the ballot card or when a mark on an optically scanned form is too faint. Manual counting in precincts that use machine voting thus increases the number of votes tabulated for both parties. Machines do not favor one candidate or the other, and the percentage of votes obtained by each party usually remains the same after a fair manual recount--unless extra ballots turn up. A manual recount using different standards to decide voter intention...
...Florida, only ballots that were not punched at all, nicked or partly punched should have been set aside [ELECTION 2000, Dec. 4]. Then those ballots should have been evaluated and recounted by hand and the total of valid votes added to the original machine count. This process should not take more than 48 hours. (It would take less than 24 hours in Canada!) Anyone objecting to it and finding legal reasons for multiple delays and a total recount is a partisan who has a vested interest in the result. If there is serious concern that the machine counts could...
Only one reason explains why a dimpled chad next to a candidate's name does not demonstrate a person's intent to vote for that candidate. The voter, at the precise moment he was halfway finished punching the ballot, changed his mind and stopped. The situation is much like the classic movie scene in which the good guy faces the cornered villain and the dilemma of whether to shoot. The hero slowly pulls back the trigger to within a nano-inch of firing, hesitates--and stops. Makes great fiction, but do we really believe that happened thousands of times...