Rob, As I said, I am not responding to any more of your unsupported internal chatter/attacks.
Instead here is interesting news coverage today by CBS news: Voting Machine Doubts Linger - Concerns Over Vulnerability Of Electronic Machines Sending Many States Back To Paper Ballots http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/16/eveningnews/main4355733.shtml Most of the country, thankfully *is* beginning to get the concepts that I've been trying to explain for why only voter marked paper ballots and routine scientific post-election audits provide a way to publicly verify the accuracy of election outcomes in a way that the public can comprehend and support. This CBS article *gets it*. For the best election auditing legislative proposal, reviewed by election officials, and statisticians and mathematicians who are experts in election auditing mathematics, please review this and see how it would work for your "pet" voting method: http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/VoteCountAuditBillRequest.pdf You will not be able to provide information or data to support the assertion that US election outcomes are mostly accurate today due to the lack of any scientific independent post-election auditing in all US states and lack of public access to election records, lack of ballot security, lack of any public oversight over ballot security, lack of timely public access to election records, and lack of post-election ballot reconciliation. I know of NO state, not even one, which employs all the fundamentals which would demonstrate the accuracy of its election outcomes. The U.S. currently has a voting system that is wide-open to outcome-altering vote fraud in almost all states. It is naive to imagine that no insiders take advantage of this susceptibility and unaccountability. Rigging an election is much easier to do and to get away with than robbing a bank, and the financial rewards and power obtained from election rigging are far greater. And all the available data is highly consistent with ubiquitous vote miscount - not surprising without any measures to detect or correct vote miscount in most states. Why would you imagine that any election outcomes are accurate? Why would you imagine that state legislative election outcomes are accurate? Why would you imagine that any US congressional election outcomes are accurate? There is no evidence to support any claim of accurate election outcomes in most states. Cheers, Kathy ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
