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

To: greenspirit who wrote (105037)	12/8/2000 1:26:20 AM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Cummings: Instead of posting so much of what you think, why don't you try doing a little legwork occasionally and backing up some of your partisan right-wing arguments with facts and intelligent opinions from experts and legitimate media (i.e., non-Newsmax.com.) Perhaps what you ought to do is throw away all your right-wing bookmarks and seek out sources that tell the story in a fair and balanced manner. For instance, here's a recent article about some of the problems with machine counts. Especially read the last paragraph. That is one of the reasons that your boy, D-Dubya-I, signed into law in Texas a bill allowing for hand counts. Source: Randy Ludlow/Cincinnati Post newspaper University of Cincinnati professor George Bishop laughs at the prospect of a definitive and accurate presidential vote count in Florida - or anywhere else. Random measurement error - a statistical reality that afflicts nearly every process involving large numbers - will bar the discovery of true, final numbers, he says. ''I hope no one believes there is one total, absolute count here. Nobody's ever going to know. Americans think there must be a real number, some true number. Guess what? There isn't,'' says Bishop, a political scientist. Scientists know random error creeps into research, so they will run calculations several times and choose a number somewhere in the middle as representative of the true answer. ''Maybe we'll approximate or get close, but who knows what the real number is. Every time you count those ballots there is measurement error involved - the random error of counting machines and processes,'' Bishop says.