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Thread #28212   Message #350429
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
02-Dec-00 - 07:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: 20% Canadians Flunk Butterfly Ballot
Subject: RE: BS: 20% Canadians Flunk Butterfly Ballot
"If any individual garners a certain write in vote percentage of the overall vote, the write-in votes must be counted."

I'm confused there - if they haven't counted the votes manually, how can they tell whether any individual has garnered a certain write-in vote percentage?

And if someone has done a writr-in vote as well as a punch vote for the same office, that would mean that they'd voted twice, and it would be invalidated. (After all, how could you know whuich they had meant to vote for?)So that would imply that all the votes would have to be manually checked in any case.

And what if someone decides to write-in in mainstream candidate such as Gore or Bush, because they don't trust the machine? Which will surely happen in future elections anyway.

(As for Mickey Mouse, doesn't it seem quite likely that Mickey Mouse may have got in anyway?)