Re: News from inside the FL recount: A Democrats perspective

[Bob Hoffmann <escape@alt-escape.com>]

At 11:31 AM 11/11/2000 -0800, Tim Lohrmann wrote:
>Also, once a vote has been cast, how is any election
>official to know that the person claiming to have made
>a mistake isn't simply motivated by the desire to cast
>more than one vote for the candidate of their choice?

I don't think this has any resemblance to any situation I heard of.  The 
situation I reported was a young woman who wanted to trade her first ballot 
(which would then be invalidated) for a second ballot, so she would only 
have (and submit) one valid ballot.  This is SOP at polling places around 
the nation.

I think the Florida state courts will have to decide whether the time has 
passed to challenge the ballot format.


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