| OCR programs are notoriously inadequate, but they are also irrelevant, since the machines are reading punchouts, not write-ins. By the time one factors in multiple handling (after all, there were two machine counts), the lack of agreed upon criteria for counting a ballot, and normal human error, the supposition that one is getting a better reading of the "will of the people" is spurious. Finally, as I say, without a willingness to recount close ballots throughout the country, and to litigate all irregularities, there is nothing fair in the Florida situation anyway. Now, perhaps you would be willing to see the can of worms opened, if that is what it takes, but the potential for endless trouble and expense is daunting. I will repost something on "the will of the people" shortly........ |
