I suggest that we find one county for each state that we believe to be representative, let them vote, and then extrapolate from their results and assign electors accordingly. Or perhaps one household per state. I volunteer Tim and his cats to to represent California. I know the way Nietzsche would vote, at least. -Declan On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:26:21PM -0800, Tim May wrote:
Democrat spinners are now talking up the idea of using "statistical sampling" to assign some fraction of the spoiled ballots to Al Gore.
Not a surprise, given that it was the Democrats who wanted to augment the "direct count" of the U.S. Census with "statistical fudge factors."
I never thought I'd hear this bizarre notion extended to the vote, though!
--Tim May
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