Re: R: Re: CHAT (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida
From: | Mangiat <mangiat@...> |
Date: | Thursday, November 30, 2000, 20:21 |
Hey, Lars, I've heard of a postal vote from Florida which the air mail
service took to Danmark. I heard it during a radio comical programme, so
dunno if it's true.
Luca
> 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)