On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:37:36 -0500, "Nathan Newman" wrote: > > The Miami Herald only looked at the original four counties. > Ironically, Bush would have won if he had just let the recounts go > forward, winners never want recounts, losers *always* do... > but would have lost under the Florida Supreme Court's rule that > there had to be a statewide recount. i am not familiar with the ruling that there was to be a "statewide recount." did i miss something? > Another irony is that most of Gore's votes apparently did not come > from "chads" in punchcard systems but actually came from > "overvotes" in optical systems, the supposedly more accurate system. the two normal sources for the supposed greater accuracy of the new systems are the vendors who sell these kinds of voter technologies and the supervisors of elections, who promised their county commissions that these new technologies would improve accuracy in order to get the funds to purchase them... afaik (as of 1998), there was no independent study of the new voter technologies vis-a-vis their accuracy... ac ''' (0 0) ----oOO----(_)---------- | the geek shall | | inherit the earth | -----------------oOO---- |__|__| || || ooO Ooo ------------------------------------------------------------ FREE EMAIL from AUSI at http://ausi.com