Nope, that s not our job. But it is our job to try to figure out what the candidates are thinking, what they might be planning, and to give our readers an idea of what might happen next. That s why you ve been hearing so much about possible agreements. It s clear both campaigns have been looking for a way out short of full-scale war, so we ve been looking at the terms of armistice. This sounds like an elementary question, but I have not heard anyone address this issue.
Most ballots place the punch holes along the right-hand side.
Palm Beach County is the only jurisdiction in Florida to design a ballot with all of the punch holes in the middle. The idea was to boost the size of the print and make it easier for the county s substantial elderly population to read. But clearly a few thousand of the 420,000-some people who intended to vote for Gore did indeed vote for Buchanan by mistake. And, yes, that ballot was approved by a county elections commissioner who is a Democrat. I guess I just won t count it.