Re: Second Thoughts

[S.V. van Baardwijk-Holten]

"Marvin Long, Jr." schreef:

> If you set procedural arguments aside, then we know for
> a fact that we don't have an accurate measure of the will of the Florida
> electorate as things currently stand.

Actually you _do_ know what they want. It's just that that is illegal because half 
want Bush, the other half want Gore. Give or take a few votes that is. But to me these 
votes are the scientific error margin of the system. Maybe I'm too stupid or 
something, but how can you determine that one or the other has won an entire states 
vote when both have almost exactly half of the support of that state? This is 
certainly very strange to me. But then again I'm not a US citizen. I'm just a 
scientist. ;o)

Sonja