>>>>>>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
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>>>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?
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>>So he was a Florida democrat? or Republican?
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>A Dem. He had won the primary in a *SQUEEKER* and won election only by a recount in another *SQUEEKER*. Now he pops up with a votamatic and the county officials (Dem's) don't know how he got it and won't file charges. The votamatic 'disappeared' after being confiscated by the law. Smells down there, doesn't it, and it ain't the fish. Ah yes, those evil Republicans want to corrupt the election process, don't they.

It definitely smells. The exact nature of the smell is yet to be discovered though. This sort of thing should not be dismissed as is apparently being.

IMO, if the guy was showing it around it is doubtful that it was used for voter fraud. But in any case somebody should be looking into this.

I wouldn't say Rep's want to corrupt the process, but they sure are trying to spin things around. The most transparent claim right now is that Rep's believe that the democrats have full control of the manual recount process and in some way they will be biased to giving Gore the victory. They have representatives wherever this recounts are going on and the whole process is open to the public, even being televised. That contention is ludicrous IMO.