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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (122580)	1/18/2001 5:55:31 PM
From: willcousa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Any chance that when you say there is a 3% error rate that you are citing the voter error rate and not the machine error rate?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (122580)	1/18/2001 7:41:54 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

Dear Dear Dear Nadine, I would suggest that you think before you pen suggestions on how other conduct work of which you are clueless. As to facts or data in measuring what loosely might be called an error rate but not really, You might want to review this message that was a nice collation of Florida results. The author of this information took the time and used his engineering expertise to find, extract and integrate data in a meaningful way. Message 14840910 Then you should get a dictionary and some technical training and then you may have some understanding the technical meaning of the concept of error rate. Humans, especially democrats have of whom as far as I know have a ZERO percent content of Engineers have demonstrated an ability to have a clueless comprehension of mechanical processes like the balloting process in Florida that is in excess of 99.9% approaching 100% Remember the tech-ninny expert who testified for Boise was a political scientist and had ZERO technical credentials. This demonstrates the fundamental technical process ignorance of the BOISE picked by AL GORE legal team. As a non technologist not having had the opportunity to measure the ingenious ways that folks do the stupidest things given even the simplest instructions, you have difficulty understanding how it is possible for 1 person in 10 of a group with substantially less education and substantially less experience voting could be in error. Having many times in past designed for dumb humans I have no problems understanding the problem. Again over 7000 of the Miami Dade ballots had no marks in the presidential column and yet had other correctly punched holes. Just because a social scientist cannot understand why some my not vote for president this is not proof of what you call as an error rate of 10%. The machine counts between the first and second count except for Palm Beach were in agreement at a number that was less than the difference (the BUSH WON BY) of the first count. The Error rate of the machines is the difference between a count and a recount and a slight increase in the number of votes is expected as some hanging cads that may not have been counted are torn away and a few new votes appear in the total. Nadine where you come from they do not understand what the meaning of error rate is. Nadine where you come from they also don't know how to measure it. Nadine where you come from they do know how use a bogus proposition to try and prove whatever makes them feel good at the time. Nadine all certified metrology compliant machines have calibration and self verification and self diagnostics and the ballot counting machines in Florida passed all tests before during and after all counts. Dear Dear Dear Dear Nadine, I always love liberal vacant minds who are clueless of automated processes. Dear Dear Dear Dear Nadine, for several years I was a Software Hardware Integration Test Specialist. Many of my colleagues often commented that I was the best SHIT specialist they had ever met. watman.com Some can find with automation the true needle in the haystack so it can be scudled. Finding a needle tens of miles away is just a little more complex than counting a hole in a piece of paper 1/100 of an inch away. watman.com watman.com Tom Watson tosiwmee