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

I never heard this one.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lars Henrik Mathiesen" <thorinn@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 1:06 AM
Subject: Re: CHAT (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida


> Right after election day, the news here reported about one place in
> Florida where some people were allegedly given ballots prepunched for
> Bush.
>
> (People who spotted it were given clean ballots, but the presumption
> was that many Gore voters didn't, and that their ballots would then
> have been rejected for double punches. (And the Bush voters' ballots
> would only have one, of course). The report also said that that county
> had unusually many void ballots).
>
> And nothing more was heard, at least here --- so what happened? I'd
> have thought the Democrats would be trying to get some Bush supported
> convicted for voting fraud, if that might turn opinion against him.
>
> Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT
marked)
>