Re: How can Neal say Boulder's election was accurate

[Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Evan:

I just checked with my partner in Germany.  He is 90% certain that they only
do hand counting.  No machines involved.

He says a typical ballot has two votes on it.

He will check on both these statements.  I will report when I have firmer
information.

Ralph Shnelvar


On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 13:45:22 -0700 (MST), you wrote:

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>On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Some Guy wrote:
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>> For the length of time that it took to count the vote, it could have been
>> done by hand in each precinct.
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>I believe countries that do it by hand do it in precincts -in hours,
>not days.
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>What we have is the kluge of kluges: Illegally tested (thanks for
>trying, Al) proprietary software running on Windows, intersecting
>with the vaguaries of printing, and the greatest motive in history:
>the Presidency.
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>If humans see imperfect boxes we have no problem compensating.
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>But instead of hand-counting which is cheaper ($1.82/vote in Canada
>compared to $3-6 here) more accurate (according to MIT/Caltech),
>done in public (poll watchers watching) with the $ going to humans
>not software corps, we will get a very sophistocated expensive
>way of making the boxes better, kluged on top of the pile of shit
>we're now buying.
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>Poll watchers THINK they're watching now, but they're staring at
>"black boxes."
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>Evan
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