[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Rodney Sparapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2) they didn't examine the undervotes in the original count or the
> state-law mandated
> > re-count; it's only in the third count where they are considering
> them, which is what
> > is so disturbing.
> >
>
> i tell you want I find disturbing:
> the "chad undercount error" that was discovered in the Volusia
> county complete hand count went 62% to Gore and 38% to Bush.
> However, as a whole, Volusia was only 53% Gore and 45% Bush.
> Since when do chads play favorites, or is this entirely realistic
> is one were to model chad failure as a Poisson process?
>
A simple explanation would be that there was one dud machine in a
Gore-voting district. I'll leave it to someone else to start discussing
inhomogeneous Poisson processes. In essence, it's the same sort of
idea.
Bob
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