Re: Democrats are arguing for statistical sampling voting

2000-11-12 Thread Kevin Elliott
At 17:52 -0800 11/9/00, Tim May wrote: At 8:55 PM -0500 11/9/00, Declan McCullagh wrote: I suggest that we find one county for each state that we believe to be representative, let them vote, and then extrapolate from their results and assign electors accordingly. Or perhaps one household per

Democrats are arguing for statistical sampling voting

2000-11-09 Thread Tim May
Democrat spinners are now talking up the idea of using "statistical sampling" to assign some fraction of the spoiled ballots to Al Gore. Not a surprise, given that it was the Democrats who wanted to augment the "direct count" of the U.S. Census with "statistical fudge factors." I never

Re: Democrats are arguing for statistical sampling voting

2000-11-09 Thread Declan McCullagh
I suggest that we find one county for each state that we believe to be representative, let them vote, and then extrapolate from their results and assign electors accordingly. Or perhaps one household per state. I volunteer Tim and his cats to to represent California. I know the way Nietzsche

Re: Democrats are arguing for statistical sampling voting

2000-11-09 Thread Tim May
At 8:55 PM -0500 11/9/00, Declan McCullagh wrote: I suggest that we find one county for each state that we believe to be representative, let them vote, and then extrapolate from their results and assign electors accordingly. Or perhaps one household per state. I volunteer Tim and his cats to to