Re: The Recent Election

From: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Date: Thu Feb 22 2001 - 23:17:51 MST


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.

The legacy voting procedure doesn't allow for error margins and for a
third outcome, a tie, and hence needs to be revised.

The sad thing that this rarely addressed in above controversies.



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