Posted on 11/07/2008 5:19:06 AM PST by reaganaut1
Have they counted military absentee votes yet?
Is anyone watching out for Coleman’s interests? Why can’t/don’t they stop this “count until we get the results we want”?
No hanging chads possible. Anyone who’s taken a machine scored test in school understands the mechanics involved in casting a vote. And, to top it off, when you insert your ballot into the box, it is electronically scanned.
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Here is where you are seeing the ‘rules’ from a different perspective than the people who are going to do the recount. Of course, an optical scanner counts the votes when the correct number of circles are filled in.
The Secretary of State is not going to refeed these correctly completed ballots into machines again, but is going to ‘scrutinize’ each ballot for the INTENT of the voter. I heard him say on a newscast “some people make an “x” and some people make a “check” and some people make a mark “near” the bubble. These will all be counted.”
These marks are not read by the optical scanner, but the ballot is not spit out, the ballot is just registered as a “no vote” for that particular contest. Most of these improperly filled in, and not counted by the scanner, votes will be for Al Franken. Bet on it!
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