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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave Gore who wrote (401)	11/14/2000 4:08:30 PM
From: Dr. Voodoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3887

Dave, I agree with your premise of getting the most accurate vote count possible but I feel that the degree of certainty in this will be too low to justify the expense of doing so by a hand count. Statistically speaking I feel that it is QUITE LIKELY the differences are so small, that without MONTHS of expense, the result is likely to be a tie--no expert will be able to find with a reasonable degree of certainty(largely because of data degredation, systematic errors etc.) that one candidate was a clear winner. Presently we have a situation where the results of two counts favor a winner. If the results of a hand count of all of Florida reveal a different candidate is the winner, this will now be contested. If the number of votes is a significantly large difference that it doesn't fall in the realm of reason, what will be the result? More turmoil. People will be looking at every stupid irregularity in every ballot. Moronic experts will be called in from both sides and this thing will be blown up so big it will consume America. I don't think that I would be willing to put my faith in a single hand count. Despite the claim that it may be more accurate. It is impossible to determine, but 99.995% is a pretty stiff number to come up with for the accuracy of a single hand count in the state of Florida. Remember it wasn't just a bunch of cheesy punch cards that were used as ballots. I'm at the point where I honestly believe that a continued recount of all votes using newer and different machines to minimize error is the most logical way to go. If people begin handling every ballot, every ballot will now have been handled differently. The likelihood that some lunatic will screw up the whole thing goes from finding one lunatic in a hundred to finding one lunatic in ten thousand.. another statistical probability. V