Re: Ironic counting problem?

From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Fri Oct 18 2002 - 15:28:41 MDT


On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 Artillo5@cs.com wrote:

>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 Un-friggin-believeably obvious
>propaganda... will someone figure out just how long it would ACTUALLY take to
>count 11 million paper ballots?

During elections in Italy, around 50 million votes are routinely counted
in one day. The same is true for most european nations. No high tech
involved, just manual counting.

In fact, no one here understands what happened in Florida, and WHY it took
such a long time to count those votes manually.

Ciao,
Alfio



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