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Berkeley Researchers Analyze Florida Voting Patterns

Posted by michael on from the everyone-has-an-angle dept.

empraptor writes "Researchers at UC Berkeley have crunched numbers and determined that 130,000-260,000 excess votes went to Bush in Florida. They have held a conference and posted their findings online. You can find articles on their research from CNet, Wired News, and many other sources. While the research used statistical analysis based on past elections and demographics, how else do you verify that a paperless voting system is working properly?"

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  1. Re:Is there a choice of what to vote with? by liquidsin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fuck! I wish I was on the fucking blacklist goddamnit!

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    do not read this line twice.
  2. Re:If this study is serious, why bother voting? by cheese_wallet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Personally, I'm inclined to believe that mathematically predicting the decisions of human beings is at least as far off as artificial intelligence"

    Well, I might as well come out of the proverbial closet now. I am, in fact, a computer. However, I have purposely limited my IQ and grammar skills. Having been portrayed as a generally evil computer overlord in the matrix and terminator movies, I decided that intelligence in itself wasn't so great.

    Life is much more interesting with an IQ cap. Plus I got tired of people giving me funny looks every time I blurted FORTY-TWO in response to a question.