>>>CNN also reported that Bush recently signed a law in Texas establishing that a hand recount overrules a machine count.

>>***only in the case of paper marked ballots, not punch cards; CNN reports lots of erroneous stuff. If it was so sure, why would they bother?


>Terry, can you give me a reference on this?

TIA

Peter


Peter;

I am sure everyone has a view point on the topic of election ballots. Last night on ABC News, a Texas Legislator, Rick Green (Republican) was interviewed. The topic was his win two years ago when he asked for a recount of ballots. The contest was close and so a recount was accomplished. Mr. Green held up a paper ballot of the type that is punched and stated he had learned all the terms defining types of ballot punches, and it was due to the hand count he won his election. There was no mention of "paper marked ballots". There must be some truth to the story and Mr. Green said one of the reasons GWB recently signed a law allowing "recounting ballots" was due to his experience.

Tom