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10/11/2000 14:24:13
 
 
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>No. But when it happens to an extent so much greater than anywhere else, there are two assumptions.
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>1. People there are amazingly more stupid, error prone, and less likely to check that they had marked their ballot properly than anywhere else.
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>2. There was something about the ballot that lent itself to being mismarked.
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>While not an exact analogy. If you gave a test where 90 percent of your "A" students missed a question, the most likely cause is that the question was unfair and the question should be disregarded.
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>There are several reasons why we can't revote the county, but blaming it on massive user error and saying they got what they deserve doesn't sound right to me.

Four percent is hardly massive - enough to warrant an examination of what happened, perhaps, but again, this needs to be stated in comparison with other large counties using paper ballots.
Dan LeClair
www.cyberwombat.com
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