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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HighTech who wrote (80168)	11/17/2000 6:08:11 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

these kind of errors when applied in the entire country in each and every county and precinct spread evenly and randomly over all of the candidates The falacy of your analysis is that different counties use different types of voting procedures and machines and so have different error rates. The distribution of these machine types is not random. One example, wealthier precincts often have newer, more modern machines. TP

To: HighTech who wrote (80168)	11/17/2000 6:25:20 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 769667

It is a fact that most repub counties in Fla don't use chad ballots, which is where the advantage can be exercised through judgement, as is the case in those selected counties in question in Fla now. So Bush would therefore not be on a level playing field with Gore by accepting a state-wide manual recount. The non-chad ballots have a much lower error rate in the machine count to begin with, so there are fewer non-machine readable ballots to exercise any judgement over. There are just more uncounted ballots with the old-style punch cards. This is why the Republicans have opposed any manual recounts; there are just more uncounted Gore votes out there than Bush votes.