The punch arrow on the machine pointed directly at the line in-between #4 and #5.  It was impossible to tell whether a punch would have punched out #4 or would have punched out #5.

They knew this about these machines.  They have to have at least TWO BLANK PUNCHES between selections to reliably tell who the voter intended to vote for.  The rest of the ballot was made this way.  But for the Presidential selection, they used punch slots right next to each other.  The way it worked was that

* If you point to the line between Buchanan and Gore and punch, you vote for Buchanan

* If you point to the line between Gore and the Socialist candidate, you vote for Gore

The pointer could not land on a hole, it only landed on the lines.

So, the question people outside the polling area after voting were asking was, which line voted for Gore?  The line between Gore and Buchanan or the line between Gore and the Socialist?

Do you have another explanation why so many Jewish voters voted for Buchanan?