I thought it was well-known that election officials would duplicate
ballots to make them machine-readable. This makes sense when the ballots
show a clear intent but the writing is too light for the machine, etc.

The Sentinel attempts to analogize this with what was being urged in South
Florida. But arguably there was a distinction.  There the election workers
were going to have to deal with votes for which intent was unclear, and
were going to have to use very subjective standards to determine intent.
Here intent was clear.

I spent part of my misspent adolescence reading the Orlando Sentinel;
although it has moved political posture, it has not changed its habit of
spinning every story to fit the writer's political views.


On Tue, 8 May 2001, Rick Pildes wrote:

If you are not bored with voting stories on florida, this is a piece of 
interesting new information that just came out in the orlando sentinel.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-vote050701.story


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