[wagglebee]

Are these idiots ever going to get it right?

[kingattax]

unreal.....another palm beach mess brewing

thats all we need

[mwyounce]

How dumb are some of these people??? If you see:

---            ---> George W. Bush

---            ---> John F. Kerry

How hard is it to figure out you complete the arrow for the one you want????

Then again these are the same people who didn't know:

---> • George W. Bush

---> • Albert A. Gore, Jr.

meant to poke the hole with your little pointy thing.

[william clark]

Absentee ballots or absent-minded ballots?

[Yo-Yo]

Democratic Primary. Who are they going to blame for stealing the election this time?

[Vermonter]

Don't know if Florida's laws are different, or if federal law changed it, but we weren't allowed to open the absentee ballots for counting in Vermont until election day.

[visualops]

And what about the 20,000+ double-registered voters (largely Dems) who vote twice?
I don't suppose the Dems cry of "disenfranchisement" includes them.

[ambrose]

People who are dumber than a pile of dog poop shouldn't be allowed to vote.

[OneTimeLurker]

"others....poked holes through the paper ballots."

Made me laugh out loud.

[Paleo Conservative]

Anyone too dumb to fill out a "broken-arrow" ballot has no business voting.

[lowbridge]

If voter intent can be determined, a second ballot will be filled out correctly and scanned by a vote-counting machine, LePore said. "It's not like they're thrown out and not counted."

Unless, of course, if it's a military ballot.

[KiloLima]

Life is a beach.

However, I question the timing of this . . .

[blackdog]

At least without butterfly/punch cards, the democrat tactic of taking stacks of them and driving a nail thru them in batches of 50 will be a thing of the past. That is by the way precisely how you get dimpled, pregnant, and hanging chads.

[atomicpossum]

Throw them out. Can't do it right? You void your vote. Period.

[supercat]

If voter intent can be determined, a second ballot will be filled out correctly and scanned by a vote-counting machine, LePore said. "It's not like they're thrown out and not counted."

If a ballot is 'invalid' becaue of some factor outside the voter's control (e.g. the mailman dropped it in a puddle) then it is correct and proper to have it recorded per the voter's apparent "intent". If, however, a voter casts an invalid ballot because of the voter's own negligence, there is no basis for counting the ballot as any sort of vote.

Elections in Rockford, IL have turned on this very issue; the instructions on the ballot explicitly state that voters must put an "X" in the box next to their candidate. They must not fill in the box, circle the box, put a checkmark in the box, or do anything else. Only an "X" constitutes a valid ballot. In at least one election, the candidate who won would not have done so if checkmark ballots counted as votes. Such ballots, however, were rejected for failure to follow the rules, and so the candidate who was preferred by more of the people who tried to vote, lost.