This is why EVERYONES vote does count.  I'm sad to report that Arizona had the
lowest voter turn out.

Wirt Atmar wrote:

> If you want to see clear statistical evidence of a true screw-up, you can't
> do better than the graph at:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/09/election.president/top.graph
>
> ic.fl.gif
>
> This is a graph of the distribution of Buchanan votes, county-by-county in
> Florida. The county which stands all out of proportion to all of the others
> is Palm Beach, a wealthy, heavily Jewish, heavily Democratic county, the last
> people on earth you would expect to vote for Buchanan.
>
> However, as virtually everyone now knows, due to first-time, rather
> experimental ballot design in Palm Beach county only, apparently a fair
> number of voters were confused, casting their ballots for Buchanan rather
> than Gore. Even more to the point, apparently 19,000 ballots were
> disqualified because those voters punched two holes for two different
> candidates. The election officials aren't saying which two candidates were
> punched, but the obvious assumption is that the selected candidates were
> Buchanan and Gore.
>
> As I write this, Bush's lead over Gore has shrunk to 229 votes out of 5.8
> million cast. Who would have ever believed that you could so carefully
> balance the two contending sides? If the reasonable presumption is that those
> 24,000 votes that were either disqualified or misregistered were meant for
> Gore, then clearly Gore would easily take Florida and the presidency of the
> United States.
>
> But the legal likelihood is that they won't count and that Bush will likely
> win Florida by just a few hundred votes and be declared the next President of
> the United States, perhaps augmented by a Gore concession. This extraordinary
> outcome is obviously going to haunt Bush's presidency, but that may not be a
> bad thing by itself. It will force him to be a uniter, not a divider, simply
> because he will not only NOT have a mandate, he may not ever be truly granted
> the authority a president is normally given by the consent of the governed.
>
> If there's any moral to this graph, it's be very careful about what you do in
> your jobs. Who knows when your next screw-up can so dramatically change the
> course of history.
>
> Wirt Atmar

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