Ken Sletten wrote:

> Denys noted:
>
> > It is also important to note that Palm Beach county had
> > 15,000 double punched ballots thrown out in 1996.  Nobody
> > made a fuss then.
>
> Denys is correct.....  and this is not the only example:  THIS
> year in Cook County, IL (which has a "colorful" past WRT to
> election shenanigans if any county in the US does), after the
> developing FL fiasco hit the airwaves somebody interviewed
> somebody from the Cook County Dept. of Elections or etc.:
> They matter-of-factly noted that this year Cook County threw
> out about 120,000 ballots out of 2 million or so;  for "over voting",
> "under voting", etc;  i.e.:  SIX percent.....   which IMO is fairly
> astounding...

WRT Cook County's "colorful" past, last Saturday a caller to a local
talk radio show had a great line:

"If Bill Daley were half the man his father was, he'd have stolen this
election four days ago."  *zing!* 8^D

Patrick
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