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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (85844)11/24/2000 3:54:03 PM
From: Skeeter Bug  Read Replies (2) of 132070
 
>>They may be more accurate. But if they are more biased they are "less fair".<<

of course they are more biased. i don't think that makes them less fair when a consistent standard is applied.

let's say we know the real results of the election - voter intent at the time of the polling. let's say gore won by 500 votes. what is 3% of $6 million? a lot compared to 500 votes. bush wins based on the error rate.

let's say the manual count produces the result that gore wins by 500 and an additional democratic bias of 500 votes.

is it faire that gore won by 1000 instead of 500 or is it more fair that he loses the election b/c of 0.0001% (some absurdly low number, anyway) bias?
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