In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hayden) writes:
> ... Maybe we should just agree that if the margin is less than
> 0.5% on election night then we honestly say it's too close to call

That doesn't help. There could still be disputes about whether
the margin was less than 0.5%. And since the margin could be
either +0.5% or -0.5%, disputes would happen roughly twice as
often.

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