Re: CHAT (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida

En réponse à Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>:

>
> Personally, I doubt we'll ever know who genuinely won.  I mean, if the
> machines had even a .05% margin of error, that would translate into a
> 3000-vote margin, and no one's ever done any studies to figure out how
> accurate the machines are.
>
Well, that post gives me the opportunity of asking a question about all this. I
know it's way off-topic, but it's only a genuine question from a French point of
view. Well, if I understood correctly, not only the machines didn't count votes
correctly, but also the vote ballots themselves were ambiguous and the whole
thing went wrong in some counties of Florida. So, my question is: instead of
endlessly counting and recounting ballots, which each time gives a different
result, and is subject of all those political and judiciary problems, why didn't
the authorities of the counties where the problems appeared consider simply that
the vote process had been irregular, and that they would organize a new voting
day? If they had done that as soon as the first week, by now the elections could
have been done again and the results (this time undebatable) would be known by
now and not subject to those endless complains. This already happened in some
places in France for MP elections, and the problems were solved simply this way.

Well, don't take me wrong. I'm just asking why this seems not to be even a
possibility. Is there a constitutional or legal reason why they cannot even
propose such a solution?

Christophe.