Letter: Space shuttle could help in Florida count

Thursday, Nov. 30, 2000 | 9:18 a.m.

Here's a suggestion to make the vote-counting debacle in Florida even more interesting.

Why don't we have the space shuttle fly over Florida at noon on a specified day of the week, and take a picture of the entire state with all registered voters standing outside? They would raise their left hand if they wanted to vote for Vice President Al Gore, or their right hand if they wanted to vote for Texas Gov. George W. Bush.

Of course, the total number of voters would probably come close to the population of China. But think of the hundreds of millions of dollars those poor lawyers could make arguing over how to count the Floridians with one hand only half way up, both hands up, or neither hand up.

As a bonus we would have a picture of all those voters who could not follow simple instructions. But then again, the television news would probably just make their faces all fuzzy so we could not see who they were.

JIM BROWN

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