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To: yoe
From Robert E Cook P.E. summary of his statistical analysis:

“Ref: Statistical evidence establishes beyond reasonable doubt that 19,120 Presidential race ballots were destroyed by deliberate double-punching ballots in Palm Beach County FL with a “second punch” for Al Gore or Pat Buchanan. (In 1996, an additional 15,000 Dole and Perot ballots were destroyed by double-punching presidential ballots in Palm Beach County, FL. *)”

Massive double punching occurs when an operative sits with an open metal stylus (sometimes a clothes hanger) and punches through 30 - 50 ballots to enter another name.

It is these double punches that led to the “dimpled chad” problem, since the operator did not always punch cleanly through all the cards.

15 posted on 05/25/2008 9:25:59 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster
Massive double punching occurs when an operative sits with an open metal stylus (sometimes a clothes hanger) and punches through 30 - 50 ballots to enter another name.

I was a voice crying here in the Florida wilderness when the push was made to go to 'all-electronic' voting after this fiasco. I said then and say now that voting without any capability of recount of physical ballot is a massive open door to fraud. We are now seeing a costly effort to replace what was bought in haste with something more 'palatable'.

I want to see an 'electronically readable' paper ballot that uses indelible ink to mark the ballot like standardized tests. Yes it is not perfect, nothing is. But it would take a party hack a LOT LONGER to work their mischief there. I'm wondering if someday, in a death's bed confession, we'll have one of these hacks confess.

24 posted on 05/25/2008 9:55:21 AM PDT by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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