Another possible cause of delay is the counting of military ballots. A number of states, including the battlegrounds of Florida, Iowa, Colorado and Washington, will count military ballots that arrive after Election Day as long as they were postmarked on or before Nov. 2. Florida will count military ballots received through Nov. 12.Yesterday, in hotly contested Pennsylvania, Gov. Edward G. Rendell (D) agreed to a seven-day extension to settle a federal lawsuit in that state after initially resisting the idea. As a result, military ballots there may be received through Nov. 10. Republican officials are considering a new lawsuit to push back that extension further.
[WaPo]
In many states absentee ballots aren't even counted unless the number received is more than the margin of victory. The problem I see in FL and PA is that we wont even know how many absentee ballots there are until November 12th. Can't they look at the number of absentee ballots they issued? Nope, because of the online version of the federal absentee ballot. This is a blank absentee ballot that you can download and write in all the candidate names. Basically, the only way you can know for sure on election day would be if the margin of victory was larger than the number of military personnel in each state. That's unlikely.
Anybody see any problems with my math?
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Politics won't matter in the long run; Heaven or Hell WILL matter in the long run. Vote Bush November 2nd!!
Comment #1 :: link :: October 31, 2004 07:52 PM
