I see your point, but my only issue from the very beginning was that patently obvious votes should get counted. I don't think any reasonable person could dispute that someone who wrote a name on the write in line and didn't mark anything else intended to vote for the person they wrote in.
If the law doesn't permit counting such votes for whatever reason, then the law should get changed. I am not talking about dimpled chads or whatever that are very, very reasonably subject to differing interpretations.
I can accept not changing the law in the middle of an election, but the law is still stupid. They should be able to treat these the same as they do double votes for the same person.
On this we agree ... from my post #35 ...
Don't like the rules, rewrite the law.