The issue is of immediate concern. Democrats have collected sworn statements from voters saying that they unintentionally punched the hole for Buchanan. The issue is of immediate concern.
Suits continue being filed in Palm Beach by voters who claimed to have been misled.
Last week two economists working for the Gore campaign generated a great deal of attention. However, if Gore voters accidentally punched out a hole for Buchanan, rather than Gore, Gore's votes should be unusually low. In fact, this is not the case. If Gore had gotten the rate of votes that he had received in other counties, he would have gotten 235,361. No one raised the issue of Bush possibly losing votes to Buchanan due to the ballot, so presumably Bush should have received votes at the same rate he did in other counties.