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To: pat mudge who wrote (14184)	11/13/2000 8:09:51 AM
From: SJS	Read Replies (1) of 24042

Pat, As illogical as it sounds, there is no such thing as an honest total. You are plumbing into the depths of statistiscal improbability with this election. Not in my wildest dreams could I have ever believed this election would ride on 1 state, 1 district, and 200 votes out of millions. Challenging the concept of "punch through" and partial punch through to determine the presidency? Too much ambiguity. Therefore, the true count will forever remain in the realm of undefined........forever. Why? Because the rules of this count need concensus definition. Every ballot needs intrepretation based on those rules. It can take years to define the rules of EVERY POSSIBLE permutation of ballot punches. And then......statistically, there will be those that fall outside those rules. Forever spiralling in down....down......down. Then defining new rules to solve those problems requires you go back and recount again, to see if any marginal decisions were the wrong ones. Even with intrepretation, there will statistically be some ballots that will be argued about forever. Reminds me of the particle-wave duality problem, or the problem Erwin Shrodinger had with his cat. LOL Steve

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