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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
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