From: Mr Noe Dubrovsky (s328940@student.uq.edu.au)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 12:54:24 MDT
----- Original Message -----
From: Artillo5@cs.com
Date: Friday, October 18, 2002 3:05 am
Subject: Ironic counting problem?
>
> WOW I'm impressed! They counted all 11 million votes in one day?!!
> Why don't
> we hire some Iraqis to handle our voting? LOL
What's so hard about counting 11 million votes? Even if you've got only
10 thousand people running it, that's only 1100 votes each, that's about
40 minutes if you are taking a full two seconds per paper. The vote
counting in many countries larger than 11 million people is routinely
done in a day, which is why the situation in the USA was so risible to
many people. (this is not a comment on the overall legitimacy of the
ballot, just the objection raised seems senseless to people who have
seen election results obtained in two hours).
alejandro
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 09:17:38 MST