At 19:00 10-11-00, Chris wrote:
Gore's supporters presumably had a
tendency to lack assertive middle class social skills, may
not have negotiated the ballot paper so effectively, may not have had the
confidence to have asked for a replacement, if they had made a mistake on
the first one, may
Of course, another dimension of the voting machine screw-up is the failure to
invest in the public infrastructure. In the last couple of days, election
commissioners from all of the country have complained that their requests to
purchase more modern voting equipment have fallen on deaf ears. In
Interesting to see the strong trend during the recount in Florida, for many
more Gore votes than Bush votes to be validated out of those that had
presumably previously been excluded.
This is presumably an automated recount, as the Democrats are now calling
for manual recounts, but perhaps
