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To: tejek who wrote (129736)	12/15/2000 12:51:23 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571035

It would be easier to manipulate with a manual recount. It would? With 200 million people watching? Got me on that one. Yes because manual recounts of punch cards looking for dimpled chads are more subject to bias then machine counts. Machine counts have a margin of error. (For punch card reading machines in FL this election was within that margin of error.) Manual examination of ballots trying to figure out how each vote would count can theoretically have a lower margin of error but it isn't even certain what counted as an error. Its subjective. Subjectivity makes bias or even outright fraud much easier. "I can agree with the not winning by cheating idea, but I would not consider refraining from calling attention to a bad call cheating. Bribing the ref to make the bad call would be cheating..." Its only cheating when you get caught? You and I have a different understanding of morality. No if you bribe the ref but you don't get caught you are still cheating. If your running back goes out on the one that isn't cheating whether it is caught or not. You didn't do anything dishonest. The ref may have made a bad call but not calling attention to a bad call in your favor is not cheating. Actual cheating is cheating even when you don't get caught. Not telling some one something is not lying. Giving them false information is. In some situations not telling some one something may be wrong, but even when it is wrong it is not lying. Tim