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Strategies & Market Trends : Zeev's Turnips -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (84)	11/17/2000 9:50:19 AM
From: Carl R.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 644

Zeev, there seems to be little doubt that chads can be loosened by handling, and all observers are trying to make sure that the cards are handled delicately. But how much does it take to turn a "swinging chad" into a "dangling chad", or a "dangling chad" into a chad on the floor? I agree that if the counting is unbiased, then the chads on the floor should provide an unbiased shift in the total vote count. But remembering that the hand is quicker than the eye, I also can see how easy it would be for a worker to manipulate ballots to make chads more likely to fall out in circumstances that would be favorable to their desired result. Even actions such as twisting the cards could cause loose chads to become looser. I wonder if the workers are being videotaped as they examine cards? That should catch most deliberate efforts to manipulate ballots. But even ignoring the deliberate fraud question, my point was simply that as more and more chads fall out, the possibility of producing an accurate count of ballots becomes ever more impossible. BTW, here are some proposed alternative designs for the Palm Beach Ballot: gopbi.com Carl