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To: James Calladine who wrote (7909)	8/23/2004 12:00:59 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 20039

RELATIVE TO ONE MAN-ONE VOTE: Dual Voting Scandal Exposed No system of maintaining voting roles will be 100% perfect. The system is still one man one vote but mistakes happen. You can bias those mistakes towards making sure that very few people get to vote twice or vote when they are not eligible to do so (too young, convicted felon, illegal alien, not a resident of the jurisdiction voting, whatever), by aggressively purging the roles. However when you do that you will purge some people who should not be purged, or perhaps purge some people who are eligible to vote but didn't register correctly. Then you get a huge protest about how you are disenfranchising people. You can also bias the errors towards allowing people to vote and not aggressively purging the roles but then you get ineligible voters voting. Actually in every major election you'll probably get mistakes in both directions. Why it is a good idea to try and reduce the mistakes they aren't really a sign of an injustice or a conspiracy to subvert the election. At a certain level they are a sign that human systems can not be perfect, at a higher level they would be a sign of incompetence or lack of effort at designing and implementing the system. Tim