CDR: Re: Democrats are arguing for "statistical sampling voting"

David Honig honig at sprynet.com
Thu Nov 9 19:33:57 PST 2000


At 07:27 PM 11/9/00 -0500, 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!
>

Much as it was decided that the constitution does not allow statisticians
to play with congressional districts, they may decide similarly for 
votes, if it comes to that.









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