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...tell if an undervoted ballot was intended by the voter to register a vote? With most undervoted ballots - three-quarters, perhaps more - there's simply no indication of a vote. These ballots are true undervotes. But on punch-card ballots, even if a chad is hanging by only a corner or two, the counting machine might push the chad into its original place and wrongly call that ballot an undervote. You can tell only by looking...
...possible to have ballots standardized at the state level. The Republicans' argument that manual recount standards are uneven is exacerbated by the fact that the types of ballots and voting systems can vary widely from county to county. Some areas, such as now-infamous Palm Beach County, still use punch-card systems from the mid-1970s, while others have long since switched to more reliable optical scanner technologies. A standard system will encourage uniform procedures and heighten confidence in the outcome should manual recounts again be necessary...
...trade, he's also been looking in on the election offices and voting booths of this great nation for 25 years. He'd even brought his own Votomatic, just like they use in Palm Beach, which he'd owned since the '70s. And after a meticulous tour of the punch-card device and how to successfully vote on it, Brace said the words Al Gore yearned to hear...
...spent a year talking about how much he trusts the people. To compound the problem, it emerged that in 1997 Bush signed a law saying that in close Texas elections, manual recounts are preferable to electronic recounts; Texas law even specifies that hanging and dimpled chads--punch-card holes still partly attached to the ballot or merely dented--should be counted. Gore would be delighted to abide by Texas rules in Florida...
...clock on election night two weeks ago, and poll watchers in the small Georgia town of Dallas had a problem. The weather was humid and rainy. Now their vote-counting machine was rejecting thousands of punch-card ballots because the cardboard had warped in the damp night air. What to do? Break out the blow-dryers! "As weird as it sounds, it's standard procedure," says Fran Watson, election superintendent for Paulding County, where Dallas is located. "We blow a hair dryer over them, and then they'll go through...