On 9 Nov 2000 14:12:09 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Reg Jordan) wrote:
> With all due respect, So what!?
>
< snip, points 1-3 >
> Did it cost Gore votes? Doesn't matter. Incompetence is not a defense.
Florida law matters. The Florida law disagrees with Reg Jordan.
>From what I saw quoted, it seems like *any voter* of Florida can
argue that the *outcome* does not reflect the will of the people,
and ask to have the result overturned. Fraud, or bad intentions?
-- not necessary, not mentioned.
Incompetence, I think, is undeniable. I don't see a great deal of
pertinence to the observation that they used the bad design in the
past, with the same, high error rate. In addition to the fact that it
results in errors, the design happens to be in violation of state law
in one or two details. Of course, I don't know how broadly that law
has been ignored, but it specifies,
- candidates' names are to be on the left, holes on the right.
- the top-important two candidates are to be at the top. (Having two
columns messes up that figuring. )
The question is whether violations are serious enough that they have
to be corrected.
Now, if Gore wins straight-out on the recount-plus-absentees, then I
guess the "will of the people" will no longer be in question, since
all the errors (that I have heard of) fall in the same direction.
--
Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html
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