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Almost 400,000 Missing Votes In California

Posted on Saturday, October 11 at 12:47 by N Say
Even if the 4.6 percent of Californians whose ballots did not answer the recall question had voted against it, Davis would have lost. The recall passed by a margin of 10.8 percent, and Republican actor Arnold Schwarzenegger enjoyed a comfortable victory.

But California's anomalies could resonate nationwide, as counties scramble to modernize election equipment to qualify for federal funding in the 2002 Help America Vote Act.

In Los Angeles County, nearly 9 percent of people who cast ballots on punch card voting machines - more than 175,000 ballots - did not register a vote on whether to recall Davis, researchers said."
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  1. by Dave Ruston
    Mon Oct 13, 2003 7:27 pm
    I guess this is what my former teachers meant when they used to tell our class,\" Never take your freedom for granted.\"

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    Dave Ruston

  2. by Anonymous
    Mon Oct 13, 2003 9:09 pm
    I wish we had teachers that taught that today!

  3. by N Say
    Tue Oct 14, 2003 2:52 am
    There\'s a girl at work who\'s all paranoid about something like this (or what happened in 2000) happening in Canada so I sent her the Canada Elections Act from the Justice Dept to calm her down. Here\'s the link in case you\'re wondering if this sort of thing could happen here:
    http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/e-2.01/13544.html
    an excerpt from part 8 (preparing to vote):
    \"114. (1) The Chief Electoral Officer shall provide the returning officer with the necessary ballot boxes.
    (2) Each ballot box shall be of the size and shape and made of the material determined by the Chief Electoral Officer and be constructed to allow seals for the use of the returning officers and deputy returning officers to be affixed.
    115. (1) As soon as possible after the issue of the writ, the Chief Electoral Officer shall provide the returning officer with the paper on which the ballots are to be printed. The weight and opacity of the paper shall be determined by the Chief Electoral Officer.
    (2) Before the closing day for nominations, the Chief Electoral Officer shall deliver to every returning officer the printing material prepared for that election for the purpose of printing the year and the name of the electoral district on the back of the ballot.\"

    There\'s a surprising amount of detail in the Elections Act & there\'s definitely a paper trail so it would be easy to see how people voted in a recount or something like that

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    "Finally I am becoming stupider no more." - epitaph of mathematician Paul Erdos



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