Can someone please recount the 2000 Florida ballots ?

[Jeebo]

9. The overvote ballots were suspicious.

As I recall, the post-election media recount revealed a curious anomaly in the Florida 2000 vote. Of the overvote ballots in the state -- that is, the ballots on which there were two or more votes for president -- ALL of the Bush/Gore overvote ballots were in the counties where the voter had to punch through a hole. None of them were in counties where the voter had to fill in an oval. Weird, huh?

A plausible theory to explain this anomaly: Suppose that on election night there were some ballots being held back until very late, to see how many needed to be fixed to make sure Bush won. Where would you be holding those ballots back? You would choose counties that are heavily Democratic, to spoil a lot of Gore votes, and you also would choose ballots that would be easy to fix very quickly at the last minute. Filling in ovals would take a lot of time, because you would have to fix them one ballot at a time. But punch-hole ballots could be fixed en masse very quickly, by simply stacking up a lot of ballots and punching through the Bush hole in one fell swoop. That would leave the Bush votes unchanged, but turning the Gore votes into ... Bush/Gore overvote ballots!

I have believed ever since then that that's what happened on election night 2000. They waited until very late and then, when it was tissue-paper close, they knew just how many of those punch-card ballots in those south Florida counties to stack up and punch through the Bush hole. Which would explain why the results from those south Florida counties did not come in until very late, and also the reason for the Bush/Gore overvote anomaly.

It's been a long time since I read through the article below. It is a long article and I'm not going to take the time to read through it again now, but y'all might find it interesting.

-- Ron

http://archive.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=1220