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To: microhoogle! who wrote (75429)	11/15/2000 11:04:05 AM
From: Kevin McKenzie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Machines can't cheat either. It just seems like the exact opposite arguments were being made 20 or 30 years ago when we were migrating from hand-counted ballots to machine-counted ones. There's no way you will convince me that a hand count will have less margin of error than a machine count. Both are fallible, but machines are less fallible. If the vote count was reversed (as someone just pointed out) I think most of us would be on the opposite side of the fence regarding most of these issues. Gore supporters want Gore to win, Bush supporters want Bush to win. Our minds are made up: we're each finding the moral/legal ground to support our position, we're not examining the moral/legal situation and then deciding our position.

To: microhoogle! who wrote (75429)	11/15/2000 11:10:39 AM
From: TripleT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The only problem with this "subjective" approach is that humans have been known to cheat. >>What machines could not count properly should have been counted by humans. Machines can't make judgements. Humans can.<< What was/is needed in FL was not a hand count but a better technology for the reading of the votes by machine. Then have the voters ask if they don't know how to use the ballot. I'm not from AL, but I have to salute the old ladies (and of course the few men) that helped at our poll. They were great at giving friendly and helpful advice. The ballots were easily marked and machine read. Techie