In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:35:33 GMT, "Robert Chung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 8ut1je$aef$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:8ut1je$aef$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
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>Investment tip. "Shoup" is a company that makes electronic and
>op-scan voting equipment. Homepage claims 100% accuracy.
>Does the nation use about 1 voting machine per 100? 200? 500? voters?
>How many will be replaced before the next election?
My precinct used 3 booths. I do not recall the total number
of votes; it does use these key-punch devices, which are an
absolute abomination; I do check my ballot, but I would
question whether 1% do. There are no instructions how, and
it is a slow process; one must take the ballot out, and
compare the numbers on the ballot pages with the numbers
of the places where the holes are punched.
>> Alternatively, maybe there really *is* cheating going on. This
>> could be part of a discussion with students, too.
>No one has suggested much of that so far, where I have noticed.
>A statewide recount would bring out gross accusations, I am sure.
>And (probably) gross cheating.
The only cheating allegation I have seen is for a county
in the panhandle using a form of paper ballots. The
observers could only report what they saw from a window,
and they could not believe ballots which were counted.
But one of the editorial cartoons in our paper had a
fortune teller with her crystal ball holding up a punched
card and trying to intuit the intentions of the voter.
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Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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