On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 10:45:16AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There are ways to improve the accuracy of an actual count of
> presidential votes without resorting to statistics. That doesn't help
> in this situation, but it's something we should be considering for the
> future.
>
> For now, you have to prove that people actually did have their votes
> invalidated or thrown out. And if it happened in Florida, it probably
> happened elsewhere. Of course, the margins elsewhere were nothing
> close to as paper-thin as in Florida, so it doesn't matter quite as
> much.
There is no statistics or estimates involved. I am talking about the
19,000 ballots that we thrown out in a county in Florida because they
had more than 1 hole punched for President. The choices are to:
1) Disqualify the ballots, thereby denying someone their vote for
president
2) Count the ballot in some way
I suggested a way for #2. The person's one vote would be distributed
among the presidential candidates whose holes were punched.
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"Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.com/
