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27775: Stidham(reply) Re: 27708: Kathleen (comment) counting blank ballots (fwd)
From: StiddemDavid@aol.com
In message 27708 dated 2/13/2006, Corbett suggests:
"Someone who was both illiterate and confused about the
voting process and just got mixed up. Someone older who gets easily
confused and perhaps excited by all the crowds.... I could go on. One can
imagine many fairly reasonable explanations without appealing to
conspiracies."
I remember, while monitoring the 1990 presidential elections, watching the
election workers closely examining a ballot by candle light at counting time.
The ballot appeared blank except for a very faint pencil squiggle in the
circle above the rooster symbol. I could just imagine an elderly Haitian,
probably illiterate and having never voted before, very meekly and humbly, with
pencil in hand, proudly making their choice for their president. The election
rules specified placing an "X" in the circle. The ballot was rules invalid.