Thanks for the link. I still disagree that it's just the Bush/Cheney
arrow that's missing. Count them. There's exactly one arrow for each
pair running, including the write-in. And I would be outraged even if
it were Kerry/Edwards who would benefit. This is just plain stupid.
At least it sounds like the county is trying to make things right. I
hope they can.
Hey, I wonder how much those documents would go for on ebay?
--G.H.
--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, Joy McCann
<jmmccann_at_s...> wrote:
> There's a huge controversy going on about voting machines. A lot of
us
> think there really needs to be a hard-copy paper trail, so ballots
can
> be recounted in case of a dispute (though perhaps not endlessly).
Many
> handicapped people, however, are delighted by them. One compromise
> appears to be voting machines that produce a paper ballot (some
locales
> acquire only a few of these, specifically for use by the
handicapped).
>
> As far as the Michigan absentee ballot is concerned, my
understanding
> is that the mistake was caught and replacements were sent around.
I've
> read that it's only one county that's affected by this (not that
this
> excuses it at all, of course). There's much discussion about whether
> the Bush/Cheney space is simply missing, or whether everything is
> shifted down so that a Kerry/Edwards vote would count toward B/C.
> Apparently it's the former, not the latter. But the ballot is still
> evil; no doubt about that.
>
> http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/7659
>
> --J
>
>
> On Oct 10, 2004, at 8:46 PM, Georgie Hinklemyer wrote:
>
> >
> > Two links for ya.
> > The first is from a friend. Just for fun.
> >
> > http://wearabledissent.com/101/floridaballot.html
> >
> >
> > The second is found at the bottom of the first. Really
frightening.
> > (It may take a while, but you need to see the entire write-in
ballot
> > to understand why.)
> >
> > http://www.livejournal.com/community/2004_elections/306938.
html#cutid1
> >
> > G.H.
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