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You know, there is a whole branch of science dedicated to problems like
this; it's called mathematics.
If you want to be sure that your counts are accurate to within 1% with
95% confidence, you need an unbiased sample size of approximately 10,000
for any population size of of 100,000+.
N
PS Compare that with the 700 needed for the same accuracy and confidence
if people were allowed to check their own votes.
Some Guy wrote:
Statistical sampling is a good idea. Neal proposed 1%. I think that's far
too small.
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