[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "P.G.Hamer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Herman Rubin wrote:
> >
> > > Those who voted for Bush
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > and so push harder on the punch to make sure that it
> > > went all the way through.
> >
> > A related interpretation is that those who were voting Gore
> > were less certain that they had chosen the right hole, so pressed
> > less positively. [They would have been quite right too -- as an
> > experimental test has shown!]
>
> too bad Peter... we were discussing Volusia county. There wasn't a
> butterfly ballot there. Less positivity in votes there would be a
> sign of doubt in the character of their candidate.
>
> Also, I don't buy this variation in punching argument. None of you
> Gore supporters point out that Bush's punch hole is farthest away
> from the voter. That should make his hole more difficult to punch
> due to the additional lever arm.(hmmm idea for book: The
> Physics of Voting). And exit polling for Florida
> as a whole had senior citizens 50/50 on Bush/Gore. This may not
> be true in Volusia, but I could argue that any voting system
> discriminates against the elderly except for maybe voice vote.
>
> Occam's razor would say that undercount pickups (due to manual
> "discovery" of chad-issue ballots) in statistically greater
Occam's razor would suggest trying to learn a little about the
situation, prior to administering a personal bias based on nothing but
vapor to the situation
>
> proportion than the overall breakdown of the county
> is due to vote tampering by unknown persons of one political group.
> Combinations of the "elderly effect", position in ballot column
> (.i.e. distance from voter), variations in awl, etc. violate my
> personal principle of checking the simple solutions first.
>
> mlewis
>
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> Before you buy.
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