Posted on 02/15/2005 12:12:09 AM PST by JohnHuang2
ASSOCIATED PRESS Improvements to voting machines and election administration saved 1 million votes that otherwise likely would have gone uncounted in the 2004 elections, with states and counties that made the most comprehensive upgrades recovering the most votes, an academic analysis says. The report, released yesterday by the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, looked at a key measure of election integrity — residual votes, or ballots cast during an election on which voters failed to mark a choice or machines did not record it. Click to learn more... It was one of the fundamental problems of the 2000 voting stalemate and a focus of subsequent reforms. In every election, some voters intentionally leave the presidential contest blank, perhaps as a protest or because they are not interested. But analysts estimate that should be, on average, roughly one-half of 1 percent of all ballots, and anything above that is likely caused by flaws with design, equipment or voter education.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
Yawn. Idiots who can't figure out how to punch a hole through a ballot don't deserve to have their votes counted.
Bingo.
Even Richard Daly would have been hardpressed to find 3.5 million tombstones.
LOL, Apparently little tommy just lacked a loyal base.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.