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Posted by Jessica Boucher.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Student on team #237, Sie-H2O-Bots, from Watertown High School and Eastern Awning Systems & The Siemon Company.

Posted on 11/10/2000 9:27 AM MST


In Reply to: i really feel sorry for florida... posted by Jay on 11/9/2000 4:33 PM MST:



I agree, I feel really bad for FL too....and it's kinda funny, that the only state that is having problems is the one who W's brother is governor of.
By the way, if you have the chance, don't chew out your local Floridian friend about this all....luckily he took it the right way, but I can see where there can be some confustion.

: p.s. florida used the same system in '96. they had aprox. 15,000 mistakes... add in a big voter increase and bingo: you have a disaster that's just been waiting to happen for the past 4 years.

Well, thats because FL has one of the lowest voter turnouts in the country...more of the less populated counties feel that whoever the president is does not affect them at all...and would rather spend their energy pushing their favorite local candidate, because the local candidate will help them more than the president.
(That was all from a NY Times article a month back)
Anyway, due to lower turnout, they don't feel that they need to spend the money on fancy mechanized booths like the ones where I am.

: p.p.s. buchanan was just on tv, he said the ballot was confusing and he doesn't feel right about taking gore's votes...
Poor Buchanan...at least he's being civil about this...I think the quote that has aggravated me the most throughout all of this was the one made by one of Bush's lawyers who answered 'Well, it's not like the US is like other countries that revotes and manipulates the data until they get the results they want'...grrrr.

Done venting for today,
-Jess Boucher #237