> On Jun 14, 2009, at 10:36 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
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>> [Interesting comment from Robert Naiman of Just Foreign Policy
>> <www.justforeignpolicy.org
>> >. --CGE]
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> Ah, the fetish of "polling!" Naiman could write this nonsense about a
> *telephone* poll in a police state where no telephone can be presumed
> untapped and no "pollster" presumed not to be a police spy.
>
> Will someone of the mullah-apologists on this list please explain how
> more than 35 million paper ballots can be hand counted--right down to
> the last vote-- in a few hours.
As the limit of counters approaches 35 million, counting time approaches zero.
I don't have to count 35 million ballots, just the little box of ballots in my own precinct.
-- In Solidarity, Billy O'Connor