10-14-2004, 08:47 PM
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Serenity Now
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Survivor Island
Posts: 7,007
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Explain this Please
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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Miscounts don't just happen because of fraud. Sometimes, there are normal glitches. I have seen numbers inverted, for instance, so that a precinct reported 315 votes for X instead of 135; I have seen electronic machines double counted, so that 50 + 30 + 20 instead becomes 50 + 50 + 20 or 50 + 50 + 30 + 20; I have seen piles of paper ballots misplaced and left out; I have even seen boxes of ballots accidentally left in the trunk of a car when they were supposed to be delivered somewhere.
In this case, the issues that involved misconduct (e.g., intimidation claims of minority voters) were likely not even going to be part of the recount, and the recounts instead would have focused mostly on the more mundane aspects of counting votes.
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Fraud was the wrong word to use. I should have used "irregularities." |
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