Surely some voters would choose to leave the ballot blank. If I
didn't like any of the presidential candidates, but I thought that
some more local election was worth voting in, I might do that. In
fact, in the local municipal election that we just had, I was allowed
to vote for as many as 4 candidates, but only chose to vote for 2.
I would hope that the recount is an attempt to correct counting
errors, not to create votes where there were none.
Duncan Murdoch
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 09:32:31 -0500, Bob Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>The model is simplified, but I assume that (B)
>votes will be counted by "divining the voter's
>intent" through chance imperfections in the
>ballots. Thus the probability is 0.50.
>
>Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 22:49:41 -0500, Bob Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >There are two possibilities: (A) a vote was
>> >attempted; (B) no vote was attempted. Let us
>> >assume that for (A) the probability of a Gore vote
>> >is 0.62, and 0.50 for (B),
>>
>> If no vote was attempted, then surely the probability that a vote for
>> Gore was attempted is 0, not 0.50.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
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