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

To: ColtonGang who wrote (99239)	12/3/2000 7:31:45 AM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

To think how easy it would have been for those counties to replace that system. You would have thought Palm Beach County would have after tossing 15,000 votes last in 96. They were all Dole votes too... ;)

To: ColtonGang who wrote (99239)	12/3/2000 8:18:15 AM
From: Don Pueblo	Respond to of 769670

That story says nothing about vote loss. You are hallucinating. Relax, you'll feel better.

To: ColtonGang who wrote (99239)	12/3/2000 9:36:59 AM
From: fuzzymath	Respond to of 769670

The Washington Post analysis suggests Florida has a horrible election system in terms of equipment and procedure. However, it says nothing about the outcome of this election, which will be determined by the votes that can be counted in Florida. My analysis (http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=14933486), and the analysis presented by Prof. Hengartner in the Leon County case, is of undervotes that can be identified as being votes for a candidate using a manual recount. The Washington Post article analyzes the total undervote. These are two different data sets. In Broward County, about 25% of the total undervotes were identified as votes by the manual recount. Professor Hengartner's data shows that in the undervotes where voter intention was considered discernable in Broward County, a higher percentage of the manually identified votes were for Bush than was the case in the machine counts. There is nothing that can be done in this election with regard to undervotes for which no vote can be identified. It may well be that in the 75% of undervotes where no vote could be identified, a higher percent of the votes were intended for Gore. The Washington Post analysis posits precisely that. Our election procedures should be changed to make sure undervoting does not happen. However, our laws dictate that only the votes that can be counted can be used to determine an election outcome. The Washington Post analysis says nothing about countable votes. Professor Hengartner's analysis presented to Judge Sauls does -- and what his analysis suggests is that the countable votes will increase Bush's margin of victory if a statewide recount is done. Hence, Judge Sauls should decline Gore's request for additional hand recounts, because it has not been proven that the election outcome is likely to be turned in Gore's favor.