From: Jeff Davis (jdavis@socketscience.com)
Date: Fri Nov 10 2000 - 12:57:16 MST
Harvey wrote:
>I am concerned at how inaccurate the vote was until we started the recount.
>It is disturbing that a careful recount should take so much longer than the
>first count, and should come up with different numbers. We need a margin of
>error on elections.
It gets better and better.
>From EurekAlert yesterday we have two items:
Carnegie Mellon statistical study shows
with extreme confidence that ballot cost
Gore votes
at http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/cmu-cms110900.html, and
Study: Bush's placement on top of
Florida ballot gave him edge
at http://www.osu.edu/units/research/archive/bushfla.htm
The first gives mathematical support for what we already know, and the
second shows not only that the guy at the top of the list has a slight
automatic advantage, but also, in the matter of 'unfair advantage', that
the party in power in a given state controls the order of names on the ballot.
Best, Jeff Davis
"Everything's hard till you know how to do it."
Ray Charles
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