FYI, Here is an excellent rebuttal to the very flawed arguments of Michael Shamos that was done years ago by computer scientists:
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/downloads/shamos-rebuttal.pdf > Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:22:00 -0400 > From: Dave Ketchum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Election-Methods] [Fwd: Re: [RangeVoting] Why We Shouldn't > Count Votes with Machines] > > Thank you! Shamos, while long, is well worth studying! > > Are there any useful responses? > > On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:50:17 -0400 Rick Carback wrote: > > The problem with hand counting is that it is not always clear that the > > record tabulated was the record generated by voters. And with machine counting we KNOW that the record tabulated was not generated by voters but by the machine programming. > > faithfully. You might want to read and respond to Shamos: > > > > http://euro.ecom.cmu.edu/people/faculty/mshamos/paper.htm Cheers, Kathy ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
