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>>>>Here in Georgia the ballot was different. You connected an arrow with a felt tipped pen that pointed to the candidate of your choice. The ballot even contained instructions as to how to correct a mistake.
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>>>I wonder if this varied by county, George. In Gwinnett, you used a felt tip pen to blacken a bubble next to the candidate of choice.
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>>It may have, Bill. I didn't even think that it might. So what I wrote may only apply to Bartow. Did your ballot have instructions on how to correct any erroneous selections?
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>If I remember correctly, it indicated that if you were a naughty boy and colored the wrong bubble, or colored two bubbles for the same office, etc., you could take the ballot sheet back to the ballot table and they would replace it with a fresh one. But I've never committed one of these no-no's ( that I know of ) so I haven't had opportunity to test it.

Bill,

So then in Florida, where some 19,000 ballots have been tossed out:

1) Didn't need to be since the error could have been corrected,

2) There are some 19,000 potential people who didn't read their instructions,

3) There are some 19,000 who did but deliberately spoild their ballots for some reason,

4) There are some 19,00 people who pais so little attention to what they were doing that they missed this,

I guess when these same folks go to those wonderful Florida (or elsewhere) horse racing tracks and place their bets on the wrong horse that they should be allowed to change their bets... <g>