Re: Florida votes and statistical errors (fwd)

2000-12-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 9 Dec 2000 17:28:28 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hayden) wrote: >It's not clear how you split 25 electors among 2 candidates when you >don't know the popular vote, nor if you assume it was a tie. (You >might then have a lawsuit over which elector will be split in two!-) > >There are lots of

Re: Florida votes and statistical errors (fwd)

2000-12-09 Thread Bob Hayden
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Since the vote difference between Bush and Gore falls within the margin of error for the counting process, declaring the winner is mathematically indeterminable within any reasonable degree of scientific confidence. Since we cannot know who ha