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To: flatsville who wrote (36478)11/11/2000 9:16:37 PM
From: wsringeorgia  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
Flatsville, Here, from a technical cardreading standpoint is what happened in those majority Democrat districts: Here in my precinct in GA we have a fairly new RETRO-REFLECTIVE PHOTOELECTRIC ballot reading machine that works by infared reflection off the small black line the voter makes on the ballot with a precinct supplied black marker. Essentially there NO ADJUSTMENTS polling officals can make or need to make as the machine has a "self nulling' or "auto -zeroing" function built into the system. It works by essentially reading the difference in reflectance between a PRINTED band on the ballot and and a BLANK area on the ballot. Any reasonable mark made by the voter will be read and it "self-adjusts" without any "operator" input to prevent TAMPERING. Now, in other precincts here, usually in cities, as they are MUCH OLDER systems a different method is employed, similar to the one in Palm Beach FLA and other contested areas there. There the PHOTOELECTRIC principle is TRANSMISSION or THROUGH-BEAM as was used in punch card readers years ago. In fact it is the same machine, called a HOLERITH CARD READER. Now this machine has plenty of operator adjustments: Multiple GAIN adjustments and BANDWITH adjustments, depending on the age of the machine. For example if GAIN is reduced then for any given random sampling there will be fewer "reads"; conversely turn up GAIN or expand BANDWIDTH and the number of "reads" for the same sample is increased. Now; do you begin to see why the Dems want a manual count? Probably on the original setting Bush lost a few votes, but Gore lost alot more because these were majority Gore districts; remember that a setting change would change the count. And without a doubt the Bush (Shrub) team knows this all too well and this explains why they are fighting like hell against a manual count. Most likely up in the Florida panhandle the machines are the more modern RETRO-REFLECTIVE type card readers and hence much more difficult to tamper with. And why would they want too anyway; after all they won there. So a manual recount there if done properly would not help them. Another thing that might have happened: whoever who ordered the paper stock for the South Florida ballots could have ordered stock that would help make fuzzy readings. The SHRUB team is screwed. WSR
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