On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 08:30:01AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated Fri, 10 Nov 2000 7:22:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, Erik
> Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> << I wonder how the vote would come out if instead of throwing out the
> ballots with multiple votes for President, they divided the vote up among the
> candidates whose holes were punched (normalized to 1 of course, so for
> example, Gore/Buchanan would register as 0.5 vote for Gore, 0.5 for Buchanan)
> >>
>
>
> You're joking, right? This is a country that cannot agree on using
> scientifically proven sampling techniques to improve the Census, for god's
> sake, and you want them to "normalize" votes in a PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION???
> Can you imagine the lawsuits that would arise if they were to try this?
No joke. How is THROWING OUT SOMEONE'S VOTE any less likely to cause
problems than counting them as partial votes? Also, I used normalize in
the mathematical sense, I said "normalize to 1" not `normalize votes' as
you misquote me.
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"Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.com/
