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To: Scumbria who wrote (127885)11/9/2000 8:30:12 PM
From: Lost in New York  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1570500
 
500 - 700 votes ( 1/2 the delta ) is a very small part of the 6,000,000 votes that were cast. Seems like a small difference to me. Would equate to a penny trial result of 1001 heads to 999 tails. =/



To: Scumbria who wrote (127885)11/9/2000 8:54:43 PM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1570500
 
Scumbria,

Try flipping a penny 2,000 times. The difference between # of heads and tails will be less than 10%. The chances of getting 1,500 heads and 500 tails are incredibly small. They are so small that if every person on earth did this every day for the next 100 years, chances are it would not happen even once.

I think you should check your math. <g>

Joe

PS: Add all possibilities of tails <=500



To: Scumbria who wrote (127885)11/10/2000 10:06:28 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1570500
 
Votes are not coin flips. People in some districts will be more likely to vote for one candidate then another. Some districts might have more careless election staffs then others. Elderly people who have problems seeing the ballots and might be confused by them might also be more likely to vote for one candidate then another. There are a lot of unpredictable but not completely random factors.

Tim


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