Greetings Frank! > Good evening Lowell! > > I'm dealing with this issue here on the "Newsnet" side, and don't > know for sure if it will really make it's way across, but I hope > it will!
Looks like it did! > Lowell C. Savage wrote to Steve Thompson... > > > I'm afraid I'll have to take issue with you on a couple of points. > First, I > > suspect that you are making a lot more out of Cheney's remarks that they > > deserve. It was certainly a poor choice of words, but at the same time, > > fewer candidates makes it a lot easier to design, print and tally > ballots > > and a lot easier to deal with security for candidates and set up debates > and > > all kinds of other things. > > So? What's the problem for YOU, dealing with conflicts in shere > numbers in terms of ballots cast? I'm certainly not ready to > make a 'big deal' over it here in Idaho, however, it still is a > hell'a long shot, isn't it? > Imagine, over 12,000 votes cast, and suddenly there is an 'exact > tie' vote between Steve Elgar and Steve Anderson! Exactly, an > exact tie!? Hoexactly do probabilities of such a thing happen? > You count the odds of THAT happening! Talley the probable result > and send 'em on to me, I'm interested. Imagine, over 2.7 MILLION (that's 2,7000,000) votes cast for governor in WA and the top two vote-getters are separated by something less than 300 votes. Must be something suspicious going on. I mean, what are the probabilities.... > > Second. If the "public airwaves" belong to "the people," then why > doesn't > > anything else belong to "the people"? > > I really don't want to get into all of that. I think Steve raised > some interesting questions, and, I have tried to raise other > questions into certain probabilities of how things happened the > way that they were reported. > > Hey!'m the Libertarian Party's candidate, and it was expected > that I would, as a result lose! > > BUT! > > How did the overall results of a direct "tie" in Bonner County, > with over 12,000 votes cast, between my two opponents, fit into > any of this? I guess that's a question I will never get an > answer to, since probabilities of such amount to the impossible! > How is it numerically possible for a dead tie to result in over > 12,000 votes cast Uhm. It's numerically possible, if both candidates receive the same number of votes. It might be statistically unlikely. However, when you think about the number of elections that have been held in this country, every once in a while you get something like this. Your election happened to be the one. Think of it this way. How often does a grocery bill work out to an even dollar amount? I.e. you finish checking out and the clerk says "That'll be Fourteen dollars, even?" (Can you tell I'm single? :-) What are the chances? Well, approximately 1 in 100. Which means that approximately once every hundred trips to the grocery store, you should get a bill like that. And when you do, it isn't because someone is sitting somewhere on a computer deciding that "It's time for Frank to get a bill that is an even dollar amount." > I'll admit. It might be possible. However, that are the real > odds for such happeing? You might as well win the lotery! Someone usually DOES win the lottery, right? (Or is that some other scam where the state hires people to come in and pretend they won just to keep interest up?) Lowell C. Savage It's the freedom, stupid! Gun control: tyrants' tool, fools' folly. _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
