> > but would have lost under the Florida Supreme Court's rule that
> > there had to be a statewide recount.
>
>i am not familiar with the ruling that there was to be a "statewide
>recount." did i miss something?
intent of the voter standard there ac ole boyo. even if they'd gone with the least controversial ways of designating intent and not those *horror**horror**shock**shock* dimpled chads....
> > Another irony is that most of Gore's votes apparently did not come
> > from "chads" in punchcard systems but actually came from
> > "overvotes" in optical systems, the supposedly more accurate system.
>
>the two normal sources for the supposed greater accuracy of the new
>systems are the vendors who sell these kinds of voter technologies and
>the supervisors of elections, who promised their county commissions that
>these new technologies would improve accuracy in order to get the
>funds to purchase them...
>
>afaik (as of 1998), there was no independent study of the new voter
>technologies vis-a-vis their accuracy...
>
>ac
yippee! maybe we can watch a face of between opposing party hacks.
kelley