>>>I don't believe any voting method is perfect, but this has become a (bitter) joke.
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>>>Daniel
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>>Exactly, and that is what the law says, too.
>>So, how do you overcome automatic, mechanical (impartial) vote counting machines?
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>FWIW, punch cards have the highest failure rate of all the voting methods in use. I forget the exact statistics, but there are several times more rejected ballots with punchcards than with any other kind of voting.
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>Tamar

Certainly not higher than manually counting which employs divining and other really accurate methods. BTW, you did hear that a Florida Highway Trouper stopped a speeding car and discovered he had a Florida legislative member behind the wheel and a votamatic machine in the back seat. The counts were going to manual weren't they? I wonder how many bogus ballots he punched up for Gore?