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To: valueminded who wrote (85925)	11/26/2000 9:39:41 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Chris, Skeets was obviously exaggerating. I've never known him to do that before ;-). What we have in Florida is at least a million votes in South Florida counted by a machine with a 2% to 3% error rate, when the statewide vote totals are separated by 0.01% percent. The math gets interesting. As one columnist put it, "We're measuring bacteria with a yardstick."

To: valueminded who wrote (85925)	11/26/2000 11:58:07 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

chris, you said... >>Anything which is more biased is by definition less fair. Bias (by its definition) implies favoring.<< i presented an extreme scenario in which we both would agree your above statement is not true. therefore, something more than bias by itself should disqualify manual counts. i would argue that the bias inherent in florida (even given the punk non standards) is less than 1/30th the error rate of the counts. though i couldn't disagree very much w/ the opposite view. consistent and reasonable standards across the state would reduce bias drastically. heck, even the democrats couldn't find enough votes based on bias to pass up bush and they had 2 weeks and 100s and 100s of thousands of votes to do it - and it isn't like they needed a lot! i do give much credit to the demo canvassing boards. i think they performed this function with minimal bias and about nil cheating. thank god gore didn't count -ng- i think bush will become our next president. we ought to focus our attention on how we can best moderate his radical policies (eg, cut spending BEFORE cutting taxes - reagan cut taxes before spending and we are paying dearly right now & moderate tax cuts somewhat to pay down more of the debt).