On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 02:37:22 GMT, Jose
wrote:

How do you sample a counter with the total vote cast for a candidate?

You don't. You sample the votes to see if they agree. That is, you
compare the electronically reported tally of a set of voting machines
with the mechanical (paper?) ballots corresponding to that same set of
voting machines. It doesn't matter who is ahead or behind, just that
the paper and electronic ones match.

If they don't match, something's wrong.


Yah, it means they are a different deomgraphic. Those casting paper
ballots are most likely different. I'd be surprised to see a strong
correlation between the two.


Roger


Jose
Roger