Not what I'm saying at all.

In "The Great Republic" (NOT "Democracy") all votes are certainly not
counted.

Some by default, some by desing.

Oh By The Way- this fact of error rates in ballot counting apply to all
countries using those systems . . . not just the U.S.

Steve Swartz



"Ace" wrote in message
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On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:02:24 -0400, "Leslie Swartz"
wrote:

Ace:

Do your homework. Fact- not opinion, fact- is that eht so-called
"popular
vote" was undecided. A statistical tie, more accurately. We will
*never*
know who actually received the most votes, because:

1) Not all votes were counted. It's legal in most places to discard
votes
if they won't tip the electoral scales. Therefore, in the "Bush" states
many Gore votes (and potential additional Bush votes) were discarded, and
vice versa.
2) Out of the votes that *were* counted, the totals were within the
margin
of errors of the mechanical counting systems used. Even with "perfectly"
filled out ballots, the machine counters have margins of error (within a
95%
confidence interval) of ~3% of total votes cast. Basically, any vote
tally
within 6% of each other is at least 5% chance we gave the win to the
wrong
guy . . . as teh tallies get closer, the probability of error gets
higher.
3) *Now* you may apply whatever sense of the typical "irregularites"
(10,000 absentee ballots discarded in Florida) you feel exist, and hte
margins are even higher.

STOP REPEATING HTE "GORE WON POPULAR ELECTION" BULL****!

You are no longer ignorant- if you repeat this lie, you are evil.

So, by your own admission, in *The Great Democracy*, some people's
votes count, others don't?

(Just a question, not a statement from this "ignorant" Limey - so
don't go having a temper tantrum.)