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...other election-related news, Florida Circuit Judge Jorge Labarga ruled yesterday that he did not have the authority to order a Palm Beach revote. Voters confused by the "butterfly ballot" had sued for a revote because they claimed the ballot's design led them to unintentionally invalidate their ballots by punching two holes or to vote for Pat Buchanan. The decision was anticipated and the Democrats are likely to appeal to the State Supreme Court...
...full answer. For one thing, an amendment to remove the College would never receive support from three-fourths of the states, as small states receive more electoral votes per capita than their larger peers. For another, popular votes would have a greater chance of fraud or ballot error, as 200,000 fraudulent votes nationwide would be less noticeable than 19,000 errant ballots in Palm Beach County...
...Republicans are up in arms over this tactic, arguing there is no logical connection between a slight ballot depression and voter intent. What if, they demand, a voter who is pondering his or her choice between Al Gore and George W. Bush rests the stylus on the Democrats' chad for a moment and then decides to forgo the vote altogether? Should that hesitation really be counted as a vote...
...discretion of hers to include a manual recount to be included in the total. But in the absence of anything that compelling, it was up to her. (This one appeared not to sit well with Justice Peggy Quince, who seemed to grasp the Democratic argument that a hanging-chad ballot could pass through the machine unread without it really being "machine error" - but was still a vote deserving of tabulation...
...Vice presidential nominee Joe Lieberman was among the first Democrats to take a conciliatory stance on the military ballot issue, saying on NBC's "Meet the Press" he thought vote counters should give those ballots "the benefit of the doubt." Nobody within the Gore campaign would comment on Lieberman's sentiment, or whether the vice president shared it. But when you take the senator's assertion in conjunction with Butterworth?s announcement, you have what looks very much like a change of heart. Now we'll just have to wait to see if beleaguered election officials are as susceptible...