From: J Corbally (icorb@indigo.ie)
Date: Sat Oct 19 2002 - 13:30:16 MDT
>Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 21:58:35 +0000 (UTC)
>From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
>Subject: Re: Ironic counting problem?
><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?
>A few hours if properly organized. In the recent German election,
>there were some 48.6 million ballots cast--actually each of these
>held two votes--and these were counted in under nine hours. And
>yes, they were paper ballots.
>- --
>Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
Speaking of which, I cast my first electronic vote today. Nice Treaty and
all that........
It was easy to use and the results will be available by midnight. Areas
that used paper ballots will have official results by tomorrow. Still,
with only a medium turnout expected I doubt they'll be too strained.
Constitutional amendment, anybody?
James...
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and
crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures
to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
-Q, Star Trek:TNG episode 'Q Who'
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