Re: recounts in Colorado (under present law) -- The definition of insanity

[Evan Daniel Ravitz <evan@xxxxxxxx>]

Bo, Canada (20-something million people) and Britain both hand-count
ballots. It's been done for hundreds of years. The journey of 1000
miles begins with a single step, counting a million starts with one.
It's "scalable". I'm sure it's more error prone than computer
counting, but with the proper measures, those are honest errors
instead of secret ones which can never be discovered now.

Evan

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, LPBC Chairman wrote:

> Evan....
>
> Hand counting???
> a hundred thousand ballots???
> (in Boulder County alone....)
> And you think *that* would be more accurate???
> Maybe someday you should volunteer at the Clerks office and see what it
> takes to just open and sort ballots by hand......let alone count them. You
> would be amazed at the errors people make.
>
> We need to come up with a way to make technology work.
>
> Bo
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Tiger" <tigerp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Evan Daniel Ravitz" <evan@xxxxxxxx>; <paul.tiger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "BCV" <bcv@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "William Crook" <slayer@xxxxxxxxx>; "Bo
> Shaffer" <bo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 6:46 PM
> Subject: RE: recounts in Colorado (under present law) -- The definition of
> insanity
>
>
> > No, Ben Franklin actually. Go do your homework.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Evan Daniel Ravitz [mailto:evan@xxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 1:18 PM
> > To: paul.tiger@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: BCV; William Crook; Bo Shaffer
> > Subject: Re: recounts in Colorado (under present law) -- The definition of
> > insanity
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Paul Tiger wrote:
> >
> > > "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and
> > > expecting different results." -- Benjamin Franklin
> >
> > Einstein, actually. State law mandates recounts by the same method as
> > the original count. That's why I support hand-counting until the State
> > law is changed; public-source software isn't as good as hand-counting,
> > but much better than secret software used over and over.
> >
> > Evan
> >
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