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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: microhoogle! who wrote (75467)11/15/2000 11:47:37 AM
From: J.B.C.  Read Replies (4) of 769670
 
Murali this is such B.S.!

I'll give you this challenge. I'll give you approximately 450,000 ballots. You and your 200 or so friends get to count accurately by Saturday those ballots. Here's the rub you and 99 other people want one candidate and the other 100 want the other. And your not getting paid for the work on and on. There is no way that this process will produce an accurate count. Or take this challenge, go get 5 reams of paper, arbitrarily throw away approximately 20% of the pile so you don't know the ream page count. Now by 5:00 PM this afternoon count the pieces of paper 3 times and see if you get the same count each time. You won't. Now take that same pile to a collator with a counter, or a copy machine and let it count those sheets. It will do it right the 1st time. Yes there might be the occasional jam but you can count or replace each jammed paper individually there won't be many if any.

When I was in college and we used an IBM 360 with punch cards. I would write programs with in total of excess of 1000 cards. You would verify your programs with "sets" that you knew what the answer would be. Which means that it HAD to read every card accurately. I can NEVER remember a failure of those test runs. When you didn't know what the answer was on real runs, you knew pretty close to expected results, or plain out the run wouldn't work if part of the "program" wasn't read correctly. Never happened, the occasional problem was a jam that is easy to correct.

Supporters of hand counting are merely hanging on to their last thread of hope.

Jim
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