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Thread #28688   Message #358043
Posted By: GUEST,Burke
15-Dec-00 - 08:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: AND WE HAVE A WINNER part two
Subject: RE: BS: AND WE HAVE A WINNER part two
What I want to see.

Have some enterprising grad students design a machine to read the ballots in detailed terms. It might take a while to do the development.

Not just the number of over votes but which 2 or more holes punched.

If the chads are dimpled just how many microns is it dimpled. Give counts of number of votes in the various ranges.

Then instead of x for Bush & X for Gore we have a picture of how clear or ambiguious it really is.

I thought the vote count was & is a bit of a red herring. All the counts of hanging chad don't do a thing for all the over votes & Buchanan mis-votes. If a hand count had given the election to Bush it would lend him legitimacy that, based on what seems to have been the voters' real intent, should not be there.