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> You GOTTA be joking, Chris. _I_ thought it was kind of confusing, and I'm
> young, in relatively good health, wth decent eyesight. If I were a
> typical Florida retiree with iffy vision, and were expecting this whole
> shebang to be simple, I think it'd be easy to make a simple mistake.
Sure it is. It's always easy to make a mistake. I had a hard time doing
my absentee ballot because I had to keep checking from the numbers in the
booklet to that on the stupid punch card, but you can be damn sure that
with my poor vision I double and triple checked that I was doing the right
thing before I punched anything. Also there are voluteers in the polling
place especially to assist in such instances. I've been one.
> This isn't an opinion poll. This is the Presidential election. Everyone
> has the constitutional right to be heard correctly. How can we say the
> election was fair if thousands of people made a mistake they couldn't
> correct?
Ok, if you make a mistake on your ballot you can take it out, get a new
one and destroy the other one.
>If thousands of ballots were thrown out?
This is something that troubles me and should be investigated, but the
evidence so far is only hearsay.
> I think a revote is fair. I got to place my vote for my candidate, so
> should everyone else. And if I found _I'D_ voted for Buchanan because of
> a screwy ballot, I'd shoot myself.
>
If you shot yourslef, then you would deserve that bullet. I don't like
Buchanan, but that doesn't mean that someone can't go out and say, "This
is confusing, can you help me?" It can be done. The voter has to sign a
card that they requested assistance and that they were not influenced, and
the volunteer assists them. Yes, it is a screwy system, but a revote is
absurd because those people who diid not go out and vote would then have
the chance to go out and vote again only to change the results. You would
have massive movements on both sides to push every registered voter to
vote, and it would not follow the constitutional process. If there was a
mistake made by those counting the votes or throwing votes out or some
such travesty, then that needs to be corrected, but otherwise we might as
well just begin the whole election process again and throw out 230 years
of history because some people could not follow the arrow to the punch
spot.
If you want reform for next election, then I will whole-heartedly support
it. Still as a Nader supporter, I don't care who wins. You're going to
get the same crap from both just on different platters.
Steve
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