Re: Surprising Pattern of Florida's Election Results

From: jeffc (nobody_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:26:10 -0500

"David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org> wrote in message
news:x5vfbngf8a.fsf@lola.goethe.zz...
>
> You have never seen a ballot box, right? No, the ballots are not
> neatly stacked. You have also never participated as a voting
> official, right? The idea that any single person has a chance to get
> a cleanly sorted stack of ballots out while the other officials are in
> the same room is a bit ridiculous.

1) It's not clear whether or not I've seen a ballot box, but one thing is for
sure - you've never seen the ones we use around here
2) I didn't say it would take just one person
3) haven't you ever heard of people sneaking into files on their own with no one
looking?

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