At 7:17am +0100 2/23/01, Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de wrote:
>Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
>> Although we may be sick of this topic, the controversy is not over.
>> I believe that history will record that Bush was legally installed
>> after Gore won the election because the counting mechanism was in
>> error.
>
>Apart from the irregularities you're reporting, a 1 k ballots this or
>other way is almost certainly vanishing in the noise floor.
Correct, except that the 1000 lead by Gore occurred with only a few
counties finishing the recount so far. If the other counties hold
similar ratios, we would end up with over a 20,000 Gore lead in
Florida. Coincidentally, this matches the exit polling data which
caused the news networks to predict a 20,000 lead for Gore and
originally call the election for him.
-- Harvey Newstrom <http://HarveyNewstrom.com>
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