[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The dirty little secret of the American Electoral Process is that it has
all the accuracy of measuring a first down with the "chains" in a football
game. We would like to think that we can tally our elections to the nearest
ballot, but the truth of the matter is that even in recount after recount
our vote tallys represent the true wishes of the voters only within a margin
of +/- a couple thousand votes. In other words, all this recount stuff has
all the validity of sending Al Gore and George Bush to Tallahasse, and
conductin a coin flip with Bush calling it in the air.
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> Our vote tallying system is simply unable to accurately tally votes to any
greater degree of accuracy. Yes, the vote in Florida is simply too close to
call.
For accuracy in close calls like this there is one solution - increase the
sample size which increases your statistical power - now in english - the
national vote is much more statistically robust than any state vote. All
local biases are swamped out (mistakes and misdeeds that favor democrats in
wisconsin are balanced by the same in florida that favor republicans). This
is to me the most powerful reason to dump the electoral college.
