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mopinko

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6. there were counts later.

Reply to moose65 (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 30, 2021, 10:01 AM

Jun 2021

a newspaper consortium recounted the ballots.
their results were ambiguous. iirc, al came out worst recounting just the counties he had asked for.

but it would have been proper to to give him the votes from the palm beach 'butterfly ballot', which would have clearly changed the outcome.
the voter intent seemed clear to me, but so were the marks on that ballot.

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