[EMAIL PROTECTED] posted: [...snip...] > http://foxnews.com/election_night/111600/uncounted.sml [...snip...] > # > # Some counties had startlingly large numbers of ballots that > # weren't counted. All three of these used punchcards: > # > # - In Miami-Dade County, 28,601 ballots were not counted in the > # presidential race, out of about 654,044 cast. > # > # - In Palm Beach County, home of the controversial "butterfly > # ballot," 29,702 votes weren't counted out of 462,888 total. > # > # - In Jacksonville and surrounding Duval County, 26,909 votes > # went uncounted out of 291,545 cast. [...snip...] At last someone mentioned the numbers! I make that about 4.4% uncounted in Dade (top of the normal range I guess), 6.4% in Palm Beach (bad) and 9.2% in Duval (pathetic). The voters of those counties have every right to complain. Whether or not that should effect the outcome of your nationwide election is, I suppose, up to your constitution. (Of which my own limited I-am-neither-a-lawyer-nor-an-American understanding agrees with the entity posting as "Jonathan"'s: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > d) As with (c) above, the US popular vote is statistically a draw--but > we have a mechanism to deal with this event: it's called the Electoral > College. As defined in its duties by the Constitution, the delegates > are to meet on Dec 18th IIRC, and there is no provision for them > showing up late. In fact, IIRC, he who gets the majority of them > present wins, and "them" need not be all there could be--just all of > them there that day. > > e) As with (c) and (d) above, if Florida can't get their Poop in a > Pile by Dec. 18th, then they don't get to play. Tough shit. (And IMHO, > it serves them right; they've had a demonstrably fucked process for at > least two terms, and haven't fixed it. Maybe this will give the People > of Florida the impetus to get with the ballgame the next time around.)