From: Tony Finch (dot@dotat.at)
Date: Thu Nov 30 2000 - 13:53:07 PST
Rahul Dave <rahul@reno.cis.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
>In the future there ought to be a pre-decided percent difference, based on
>measuring equipment, and mock-election experiments to say that an election
>in county X is a tie if the difference is within N votes.
If you use humans to count the vote then you can get a zero error
rate, or at least two successive counts that agree. Machine counting
seems like a really bad idea to me.
Tony.
-- f.a.n.finch dot@dotat.at fanf@covalent.net Chad for President!
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