ATTN JMS: Opinion on Bush's Win?

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From: "Mac Breck" <macbreck at access995.com>
Date: 9 Nov 2000 15:23:36 -0700
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From: "Joshua P. Hill" <joshhill at mindspring.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Opinion on Bush's Win?


> On 9 Nov 2000 09:31:03 -0700, Paul McElligott
> <paul_mcelligott at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> >In article <3a0a7923.1575274 at news.flex.com>,
> >  ostensiblyme at hotmail.com (Mark Private) wrote:
> >
> >> That's certainly one possible explanation. But as I understand it,
> >> overvotes aren't all that uncommon. So 19,000 out of 6,000,000 doesn't
> >> seem untoward to me.
> >>
> >
> >Was that 19,000 out of all Florida or just Palm Beach County?  If it's
> >just the county, then yeah, that is out of line.

 According to some other people on this thread they had 14000-15000 thrown
out votes just like this in 1996, so given the increased turnout this year,
it may NOT be out of line for this county.

Mac





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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 9 Nov 2000 21:58:37 -0700
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>According to some other people on this thread they had 14000-15000 thrown
>out votes just like this in 1996, so given the increased turnout this year,
>it may NOT be out of line for this county.

1) Why did they not tell the people of Palm Beach this in 1996 since it's
aberration for the *state* but not for this *county*?

2) WHY were 15,000 thrown out in 1996 in this one county, WHAT makes this so
different from every other county, and WHY did they keep this to themselves
until *right now*?  If you lived in a county and knew that every big election
15-19,000 of your votes wouldn't count, wouldn't YOU want something done to
bring the system THERE into sync with the rest of the state?

 jms

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