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To: Christiaan McDonald who wrote (14715)11/20/2000 11:09:42 AM
From: James M. Bash  Read Replies (1) of 21143
 
Apolitically and technologically speaking, the bottom line when using such obsolete and decades-old methodologies for tabulating votes on a vast scale in such an extremely close race is the margin of error is greater than the margin of victory.

In such a circumstance, the result is essentially arbitrary, unknowable - in other words, a flip of the coin. The contest then becomes more of a tight chess match, as no one wants to concede when "the result" isn't substantially clear.

And nowadays, in this country, when any course between two opposing parties is not plain or is "too close to call," the decision ultimately rests with the courts.

So none of this seems very surprising (to me at least) in our democratic society. Hopefully the Supreme Court will make their decision (whatever it is) without much delay and we'll have an end to it, one way or the other.

I for one am glad the creators of our electorate system allowed for better than two months between the day of the election and the day of inauguration - exactly for cases such as this, in the event of an unprecedentedly close race.

Just doesn't wash too well with our "instant results" and gratification society these days I suppose... Next time hopefully we'll all have the touch-screen electronic voting like in California, or even better, secure and verifiable Internet voting.
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