[jveritas]

A spoiled ballot means that they did not vote for a President or they voted for two candidates for President?

Do they by mean by counting spoiled ballots, i.e. determining the number of spoiled ballots or it is trying to determine "hanging chads"?

I do not like this at all.

[ambrose]

This is no different than Florida 2000. Only in 2000, they were fighting over a 537 vote margin, not a 130k + vote margin.

Like Florida, a recount of all ballots, including the undervotes and overvotes, hanging chads, etc., won't result in a change of more than a few thousand votes in either direction.

I suspect that the Kool-Aid crowd may drop the entire idea if Kerry doesn't make up substantial ground after the provisionals and absentees are counted.

[KJacob]

I do not like this at all.

do not worry. There are 155,000 provisional and 88,000 discarded. Kerry would need to get 77% of those (assuming ALL are counted) to win. This does not even count absentee.

[montereyp1]

They have set rules for spoiled ballots. 2 disconnected corners is counted. 3 are spoiled. It's a state-wide standard.