Hundreds of passing motorists in 18-wheelers, luxury sedans and rusting junkers honked in solidarity, poking their thumbs skyward. For Kimberly Houston, another first-time voter, religion wasn't the issue. She's not Jewish. But she had never heard of Buchanan when she inadvertently voted for him. She, too, says she fumbled the ballot's punch-hole alignment, and intended to cast her vote for Gore.
Voting is important.
She realized her mistake after her mother, Pat Houston, asked a poll worker to check her ballot, and was assured she had voted for Gore. Kimberly asked and learned she had punched the wrong box. It was, said Houston, the most upsetting experience of her young life. Many who think they mis-voted bristled at the suggestion that only addled old people with bad eyes had problems with the ballot. I hold a patent on an artificial kidney.