Hey if there's a good side of the US mis-election this year.. it is that
finally there will be an attempt to improve and modernize the process.
One of the technologies to improve the voting process is secure
e-voting..Can anyone enlighten me as to who is working in the field.. Looks
like
system, had few if any
recounts, and managed to count all thier manual ballots in less than
72 hours.
It wasn't a close election, was it?
Didn't think so.
In the U.S., when the election isn't close, the ballots are counted,
and recounted, by midnight of the day of the election...maybe by
mid
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Title: RE: The cause of uncertainty in the election outcome.
Well, that's not entirely true either. The judicial system is
generally pragmatic, in the sense that they do not address
issues not brought before the court. For instance, if someone
commits a crime, a prosecutor must bring up
However the recounts work out I think it's pretty clear that in the
statitical sense we have a tie. The uncertainties are far larger than
the measured difference. Even the national totals are within about 0.1%.
This is probably 1 or 2 orders of magnitude less than the percentage of
disqualified
Because the vote is so close, the outcome depends entirely on a multitude
of judgment calls about which votes count, and which are counted, and how
they shall be counted.
The normal procedure in England and the democracies descended from England,
or imposed by English troops, is that the
. Nader occasionally claims that he lures voters who would not
otherwise go to the polls. But if even one percent of Nader's voters had
turned to Gore -- a certainty -- the presidential election would have
turned out differently.
With only a 630 vote difference out of some 6 million votes cast
Declan the Reporter wrote:
#Al Gore is only 630 votes away from winning the election
Now they'll have to wait until all the absentee ballots
are counted. They had to be postedmarked by midnight.
Approximately 10 days away.
Surreal.
At 3:49 AM -0500 11/8/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:
With 99.9 percent of the votes in Florida counted, Al Gore is only
630 votes away from winning the presidency. The Florida Department
of State reports -- in numbers updated in the last five minutes --
that George W. Bush won 2,898,865 votes
ces a very, very, very close
election, and that extra blast of welfare roll voters may have been
enough to defeat him.
Mighty niggardly of the Democrats, I'd say. Spooky, in fact.
On the other hand, doing a baitswitch on closing times
is also going to affect the voting response, especially
for
involved in the process.
A stunning theft of the election. If these "late Democrats" turn out
to be the margin of victory, this will energize the anger of the
Republicans.
I just had a Cypherpunks numbskull (who was also actively on the
wrong side in the Elian debate) send me pr
-Lieberman campaign.
#
#Judge Evelyn M. Baker ruled in favor of the petitioners because
#of an especially heavy turnout. The Board of Election
#Commissioners "failed to live up to its duty to the voters of
#the city," Baker said.
#
#Under the emergency order issued
Ernest Hua has asked me to call him a numbskull directly. Apparently
he did not like my "someone" reference. So I am obliging.
And he says he will not send me anything he doesn't mind having
shared with the rest of the list. And in a later message he defended
the St. Louis legal action by
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For some reason, certain polling areas got jammed up,
as in long lines. The court agreed to keep the polls
open longer so the people could vote. It didn't matter
who the people might vote for, despite the Democrats
asking for the extended
At 04:18 PM 11/7/00 -0800, Tim May wrote:
I thought I was jaded, but this is too much even for me to believe.
A judge in St. Louis has ordered the polls kept open later, until 10
pm local time. The effect will be to let more inner city,
Democrat-leaning voters vote.
The rural and suburban
At 8:35 PM -0500 11/7/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
TimMay wrote:
#I thought I was jaded, but this is too much even for me to believe.
#
#A judge in St. Louis has ordered the polls kept open later, until 10
#pm local time. The effect will be to let more inner city,
#
commerce wrote home.com
# The obvious complaint is that only select polling areas were
#given extended hours, when it would have been just as easy to
#extend voting hours for the entire region
If all polling places had their hours extended,
does TimMay withdraw his objections?
And
At 8:52 PM -0500 11/7/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
TimMay was entirely silent on why he objects to this time extension.
You lying sack of shit. I've made my objections very, very clear.
I need to find out who you are and where you live.
--Tim May
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The women in Michigan did it, the women in Penn. did it,
the women in Fla. did it. Wake up punks, it's the wimmens.
They rule.
MacN
They need raping.
lid reason for the extension:
http://www.foxnews.com/election_night/states/mo/hours.sml
#Mahina Nightsage, 41, said she attempted to vote at 10 a.m. but
#was told by an election judge that she was not registered for
#that polling place. Nightsage said she arrived at the board's
#downt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
TimMay was entirely silent on why he objects to this time extension.
TimMay Moroned:
#You lying sack of shit. I've made my objections very, very clear.
Yeah, you said urbanites are mutants. Whatever that means in your mind.
TimMay Moroned:
#I need to find out
At 9:14 PM -0500 11/7/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
commerce wrote home.com
# The obvious complaint is that only select polling areas were
#given extended hours, when it would have been just as easy to
#extend voting hours for the entire region
If all polling places had their hours
At 4:18 PM -0800 on 11/7/00, Tim May wrote:
A judge in St. Louis has ordered the polls kept open later
Circuit cort judges just threw it out...
Cheers,
RAH
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At 9:34 PM -0500 11/7/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, let's see if there's a perfectly valid reason for the extension:
http://www.foxnews.com/election_night/states/mo/hours.sml
#Mahina Nightsage, 41, said she attempted to vote at 10 a.m. but
#was told by an election judge that she
TimMay Moroned:
#And what is wrong with simply closing the lines at the closing time.
#Put a cop or other official at the end of the line and say: "You
#arrived at 8:01. Polls are closed. Everyone ahead of you will be
#allowed in to vote, but you are too late."
Why, that's
TimMay Moroned:
#Ah, yes, so we extend the hours in a liberal welfare mecca because
#Latisha Shabombaweka wasn't properly registered at 10 IN THE MORNING.
You are clearly a racist.
You need cooking in a large pot.
;-)
Late news: Just saw Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri calling for an
investigation into "criminal voting fraud" by the Democrat political
machine in St. Louis and the lower court judge (if he was appointed
by Democrats, the jig's up). Ashcroft faces a very, very, very close
election, and
At 7:46 PM -0800 on 11/7/00, Tim May wrote:
(if he was appointed
by Democrats, the jig's up)
He was Gebhart's former chief of staff...
:-).
Cheers,
RAH
LHS'77
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