>There is another interesting fact about the counties in which the Democrats have requested recounts. All of them use the punch card ballot. The manufacturers of these systems acknowledge that they record votes less than perfectly, and many other counties in Florida have moved on to newer, more accurate technology. Many of the counties in which Bush has a majority use newer technology, and his campaign would benefit significantly less from reexamining those.



I used to write programs on punch cards but I used a machine to punch the cards. Imagine trying to debug a program in which the holes in the cards were pre-perforated and you punched out the chad by hand!

Peter