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In reply to the discussion: Why The Numbers Behind Mitch McConnell's Re-Election Don't Add Up [View all]questionseverything
(9,956 posts)Your vote doesnt look any different from anyone elses vote....and you also get to oversee the count because the system is open and transparent enough that we all can believe in the system
If the votes were hand counted for intent in 2000 al gore would have easily won. There were 275,000 overvotes the machines rejected, about 2/3 of those were for gore, where people punched next to his name and then wrote in his name in the write in spot....lance dehaven smith discovered it as gore was conceding and several newspapers confirmed gore would of won if a hand count of the entire state had occurred
Now in Florida it is illegal to look at the ballots, when they say recount, they just mean running it thru the machine again....so right now we dont have a legal system
But, we keep working in that direction
Two years ago Georgia had no paper to count and now it does