voting machine tampering

Posted by Owen Densmore on Nov 06, 2006; 6:26pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/voting-machine-tampering-tp522939p522941.html

The Freakonomics guys said at one time that we need to be clear about  
the natural errors within any system, and when the vote is closer  
than that error value, decide on what to do about a "tie" rather than  
fretting about chads, hackers, broken machines and so on.

Basically voting like any other process is imperfect and trying to  
make it more accurate will never chase all the error out.

That said, statistically interesting systematic errors should be  
revealing, I think.

     -- Owen

Owen Densmore   http://backspaces.net