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

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (89766)	11/27/2000 10:00:31 AM
From: SecularBull	Respond to of 769667

The story is quickly dying... State law was followed (by a three Dem member canvassing board), and affirmed (in two judgements by the Florida SC), in the case of Miami-Dade. You're smoking crack if you think otherwise. LoF

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (89766)	11/27/2000 10:39:08 AM
From: JLIHAI	Respond to of 769667

Or failure to count hundreds of thousands of ballots. The chad problem is not unique to Florida, even though the PR campaign would have us believe otherwise. When a uniform standard is applied, statistically it balances. When hyperaccuracy is sought in select areas an imbalance is created. The election is "fair" without the created imbalance. Accurate and fair are not the same thing, just as a set and a subset are not the same thing except in the one case where they are identical. To buy into the fairness of selective manual recounts, one has to assume that a set and a subset are the same thing. The difference between the two was pointed out to me sometime in elementary school. Anyone who somehow thinks sets and subsets are identical would never have survived the math courses I took in college, let alone grad school. In the case of Florida, the subset would be the 4 counties where manual recounts were the big issue. The set would include the other 63. Personally I'm so sick of hearing "fair and accurate" that I don't even watch the news now. To buy into it, I would have to fit my definition of mathematically illiterate.