William Saletan now likens the process of ballot examining to date rape. To me this is just a bit shrill. It is remarkable that there is such an assault being levied on the dimpled CHAD counting as a vote. Several states which have laws on recounts state that dimpled CHAD are to be counted. Are these states populated with fools? Are their legislatures so lacking in intellectual acuity that they've adopted the functional equivalent date rape in the voting booth? I'd like the naysayers to answer a simple question before we move the debate any further. If the voter didn't dimple the CHAD, how did it get dimpled? Are these ballots riddled with dimples? Can one dimple a ballot simply by handling it? It isn't sufficient to claim, "No hole, no vote" without an adequate explanation as to the myriad other ways a ballot gets dimpled. The onus for such an explanation is on those who would exclude the dimple as a vote.
- posted by levinson @ 11/29/2000 12:31:00 PM