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

Nobody seems to note that "pregnant chad" is
only at all likely to be created when the voting
device has not been cleaned out. All the chad
in it serves as a cushion.

Some hand "punches" for paper can have the
same problem.

Seems to me that there was insufficient staffing
(or more than the expected number of voters)
in many areas. So things like dumping out the
accumulated chad never got done -- at least in
some of the big cities.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nik Taylor" <fortytwo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: CHAT (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida


> Roger Mills wrote:
> > Somewhere recently I heard "The Grinch who stole the Election", one of
whose
> > memorable couplets was more or less:
> >         "Now they're counting by hand--
> >         Hey, that's not what Jeb planned...."
>
> I saw that one.
>
> 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.
We may need to spend less on campaigns and more
on voting devices/machines that work.