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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (459272)	9/15/2003 10:27:25 PM
From: Peter O'Brien	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

There is no bias. In each county, the errors in that county's voting process will cancel out statistically. The mean error is zero. Punch-card systems may have a higher error rate, but since there is no bias to the error, the mean error is still zero.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (459272)	9/15/2003 10:37:42 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769667

It's just the opposite: Voters in urban areas are far more likely to be ILLITERATE, and can't operate ANY ballot. They blame the punch card ballot because allowing illiterates to vote (sometimes numerous times, as in 2000) is the serious democracy-threatening scandal that America has allowed the domestic enemy to sweep under the rug. Everywhere else in America, voters used punch card ballots for decades with NO problem. THAT'S because THEY know how to READ THE DAMN BALLOT. As long as we let idiots vote, Democrats (i.e., idiots) will win too many races...