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

To: TH who wrote (107024)	12/8/2000 11:59:04 PM
From: david james	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

In my opinion this election was a tie. As an experiment, the conclusion we must draw is that the results were not statistically significant. Both sides are now using their lawyers to attempt use the noise in the system to their favor. No big surprise. Machines undercount valid votes. That is a fact. You can reduce the noise of the undercounting error by hand-counting. This is the assumption of most ballot laws in the country. Handcounting does add some other degrees of noise and bias. How much? Bush supporters want to say it is larger than the noise that is reduced by getting rid of machine undercounts. That is very unlikely. However, without the science, one can not prove this to be the case. So we will continue to play the lawyer games as both sides say that it perfectly obvious that the other side is immoral and disgraceful, while their candidate is honorable and decent. So it goes ...