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I wish it was by machine, it would be much simpler than the way they do it down here, with the punch cards and the stylus. I probably was one of the recounts myself, since I can't push too hard on that stylus, and according to our Supervisor of Elections, Jane Carroll, those votes aren't counted with the card punch machine they use, if the voter doesn't push hard enough with the stylus. They were however, in the recount. She also said that sometimes the paper doesn't come clean off the hole, and the card punch machine doesn't count them, except in a hand recount. This, above everything else has proven that we need to upgrade our voting machines. Florida is too large a state to do all of this by hand. Approximately 20,000 votes were disqualified in Palm Beach County because they punched them twice, trying to correct their mistakes, and in Lake Worth one precinct was not counted at all on Tuesday, but was counted in the recount where 23 votes went for Bush and 383 went to Gore. ONLY IN FLORIDA!!!! One thing I'm certain , after living here for 29 years, is that it will be straightened out~~~all of it~~~eventually!! just me, Marjorie 68/58/55 At 07:29 PM 11/08/2000 -0800, you wrote: >Marjorie, > >Its great to have someone THERE to give trustworthy updates. You mentioned >somthing about the ballots going to another candidate. I heard somthing >about that in the news, but no explanation for how the "mechanics" of that >works. Was it a badly "programmed" machine? > >David Meigs >[log in to unmask] > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Marjorie L. Moorefield" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 4:56 PM >Subject: Election > > > > I'm not sure what happened down here in Florida, > > I watched ABC News tonight where they were trying to explain > > how they made their mistaken projections. > > The last screen showed > > "W" ahead in Broward County by 234 votes, > > which is when they gave the vote to Bush, > > and then later had to put it out as "Too close to call". > > I think they must have had a hacker on their email. > > Bush was NEVER ahead of Gore in Broward County. > > > > Broward County went for Gore by over 65 % of the votes. > > We are the largest population of Democratic and Jewish > > voters in Florida. > > > > The way the ballot was printed in Palm Beach County , > > where they have the second largest population of Jewish > > voters, the vote they thought they made for Gore, was for > > Buchanan. Three elderly voters in Palm Beach County > > have already filed a law suit to have a re-vote in that > > County. Since their Sons are probably Lawyers, look > > for this lawsuit to continue!!! > > > > Broward County has had a recount, they gave 44 more votes > > to Bush and 43 more votes to Gore. Gore skunked him down > > here. > > > > All I can say is I do trust our Democratic Attorney General, > > Bob Butterworth ,and our Republican Supervisor of elections, Jane Carroll. > > Mrs. Carroll is retiring, this was her last election after many, many > > years in office. What a way to go!! > > > > just me, > > Marjorie > > 68/58/55