Re: Stats on Palm Beach votes

[dennis roberts]

At 03:51 PM 11/9/00 -0500, Reg Jordan wrote:

>Did it cost Gore votes? Doesn't matter. Incompetence is not a defense.

on what basis can you conclude that the 19,000 invalidated ballots were due 
to incompetence ... this seems to be your supposition ...

what if you saw a table that showed that the percentage of invalidated 
ballots in palm beach county was so much higher than any other county ... 
to be clearly an outlier ... would you then think that it was just the 
stupidity of the voters ... or, some ELSE was going on that mushroomed this 
problem?

these are the data i want to see ...

county .... votes cast ... invalidated ballots ... % of total invalidated




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