[HPforGrownups] Re: And the winner is George W. Voldemort (OT)

[Denise Rogers]

No: HPFGUIDX 5493

They did say things to the poll workers at the time, it appears, but some of
them ignored them, others gave them new ballots, and others didn't say
anything.  It appears that the person who was overtop the poll workers
issued a menu-type flyer to advise folks to vote the right way because it
was confusing (They were showing that flyer both last night and today at
CNN).  I don't know if you can let the whole county re-do the vote.  It
sounds like, according to CNN that the usual method of dealing with this is
throwing out the disputed votes!

Wouldn't you hate to be one of those who knew which arrow to follow (even if
your glasses had to be 2 inches thick like mine to see it!) and your vote
ended up in the trash?



----- Original Message -----
From: "Amanda Lewanski" <editor at texas.net>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: And the winner is George W. Voldemort (OT)


> heidi wrote:
>
> > Just to complicate things, Florida law specifies that voters mark the
space
> > to the right of the name of the candidate they want to vote for.
>
> But didn't the head election official (title escapes me) approve the
ballot?
> Surely she knows this law? That's weird.
>
> > Now, I'm not suggesting that Florida voters *knew* the law said "right"
and
> > voted that way because of it. I'm saying that the ballot design may
actually
> > have been illegal under Florida law. You can see the ballot at
> > http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20001108/pl/mdf129505.html
>
> Well, it doesn't look that confusing to me, but maybe they could have made
the
> arrows bigger or something. Why didn't anyone say anything to the election
> judges at the polling place? Or say anything during the election, instead
of
> after? Or did they, and we're not hearing about it?
>
> > So what happens now?
>
> Good question. I don't think you can let some of the population recast
their
> votes, without letting everyone. Urgh.
>
> --Amanda
>
>
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