For you and I looking at the ballot now, it is decipherable, but to someone with poor eyesight, in a hurry, mistakes could have been made. What's significant is that the dual column format was only used for the presidential candidates...for the house and senate everything was in a single column on the left of the holes.
Basically, in West Palm Beach County, Buchanan received between 2300 and 2600 more votes than predicted by simple statistics. That result is 4 standard deviations above the expected -- something with 15,000 to 1 odds!
Regardless of what happens with the recount, this thing won't end, as they have to wait for the 2,000 or so more overseas ballots, and undoubtedly a ridiculous litigation bonanza.
It's like Amazon's ridiculous patent on the "single-click shopping" idea...as if that's unique or even a paradigmatic concept. Is Netscape going to try and patent the Back button?
The idea is clearly innovative, but after a quick Google search I found evidence that something called "Nuotto" was already in the works back in April. They apparently jumped on the Pokemon connection too...
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For you and I looking at the ballot now, it is decipherable, but to someone with poor eyesight, in a hurry, mistakes could have been made. What's significant is that the dual column format was only used for the presidential candidates...for the house and senate everything was in a single column on the left of the holes.
Basically, in West Palm Beach County, Buchanan received between 2300 and 2600 more votes than predicted by simple statistics. That result is 4 standard deviations above the expected -- something with 15,000 to 1 odds!
Regardless of what happens with the recount, this thing won't end, as they have to wait for the 2,000 or so more overseas ballots, and undoubtedly a ridiculous litigation bonanza.
It's like Amazon's ridiculous patent on the "single-click shopping" idea...as if that's unique or even a paradigmatic concept. Is Netscape going to try and patent the Back button?
The idea is clearly innovative, but after a quick Google search I found evidence that something called "Nuotto" was already in the works back in April. They apparently jumped on the Pokemon connection too...
Sewkemon?