-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 1/15/01 12:32:42 AM Central Standard Time,
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> At least 2,257 ballots were cleanly but inaccurately punched
> in odd-numbered holes that corresponded to none of the 10
> presidential candidates on the ballot. The 653,963
> Miami-Dade ballots used only even-numbered holes for the
> presidential race.
Interesting that this article leaves out important information that is in
the Palm Beach Post's own story:
http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/today/news_2.html
"But at least 2,257 voters apparently poked at their ballot cards without
properly inserting them into the voting machines. Miami-Dade County Elections
Supervisor David Leahy said that's because the voters failed to follow
directions.
Of these miscast votes, 302 more would have gone for Gore than Bush, under
Leahy's theory. "
and
"Pattern in mis-punches?
In the Miami-Dade under-vote, the largest group of marked ballots was the
2,257 cleanly but inaccurately punched cards. During the media review, Leahy,
the elections supervisor, demonstrated how many voters might have punched
odd-numbered chads, which didn't correspond to any of the 10 candidates for
president named on the ballot.
Miami-Dade elections officials assigned only even numbers to the presidential
candidates -- No. 4 for Bush, No. 6 for Gore, No. 8 for Libertarian Harry
Browne and so on.
Leahy showed that when punch cards were laid over the ballot booklets instead
of inserted into the machine the arrow corresponding to Bush appeared to
point to the No. 5 chad rather than the proper No. 4 chad. Likewise, the
arrow for Gore appeared next to the No. 7 rather than the correct No. 6.
The Post found 1,023 cleanly punched holes at No. 7; Leahy speculates these
may have been attempts to vote for Gore. There were 721 clean punches at No.
5; these could have been attempts to vote for Bush. The Post also found 129
more odd-numbered marks that were not clean punches, such as dimpled or
partly detached chads.
Miami-Dade elections officials have been aware since November that a small
percentage of voters wrongly punched odd-numbered chads. The Post's tally of
2,257 clean punches in the presidential column is about one-third of 1
percent of the 653,963 ballots cast in the county. "
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