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[Bo Williams <bo AT mrboboto.com>]

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grady wrote:
> Well, the Greens & Libertarians are going to formally request a recount 
> in Ohio once the results are certified. Is anybody doing the same for 
> Florida?
>
> Ross
>
> p.s. also, does anybody know the fastest server from which to do a 
> network install of Suse 9.1? Don't say ibiblio; I keep getting horked up 
> partway through.
>
> Chris Calloway wrote:
>
> > --- Duncan Murrell <dvmurrell AT nc.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > > What I want to know is, how did Joshua Bell and also
> > > the folks at the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields hack the WCPE
> > > playlist?
> > >
> > > On Nov 9, 2004, at 9:06 AM, Christa Wessel wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Subject: [Politech] David Wagner on no evidence
> > >
> > >
> > > (yet) that vote is
> > >
> > > > > hacked
> >
> >
> >
> > I didn't get the original post from Christa on this.
> > But I gotta say, Wagner/Declan is wack here. If
> > missing person reports start increasing in your
> > neighborhood, it isn't evidence that a serial murderer
> > is on this loose. But it is cause to go looking for
> > what happened to all those missing persons because it
> > *is* evidence that something is going on. The fact
> > that you haven't found a smoking gun yet isn't cause
> > to act like some TV sheriff who says he can't
> > investigate without 'something to go on.'
> >
> > What I have noticed are these things:
> >
> > 1) an uptick in the number of press blurbs saying
> > there's no evidence when clearly there is. for all the
> > faults of science and statistics, apparently some
> > journalists don't know how they work.
> >
> > 2) not the highest of statistical standards in the
> > evidence at hand. if a journalist really wants to do
> > some work as devil's advocate, she could start with
> > this.
> >
> > 3) gloating over the lack of a causal connection
> > between evidence and a smoking gun, even though the
> > thing that is most wrong with the new voting systems
> > is that tampering with them is much more likely to be
> > *undetectable* than ever before except by broad
> > statistical methods.
> >
> > another observation from my poll watching:
> >
> > the tabulator tape at my precinct was printed out with
> > the vote count before the OpTech scanner (which
> > retains paper ballots in a locked bin and is not PC
> > based) was connected to the phone line in order to
> > transmit results to the BoE. i wrote down the tape
> > results. later i compared the printout with the
> > results published on the BoE website. there was no
> > discrepancy in my precinct. the only point i don't
> > know about is if the count by paper ballot contained
> > in the locked bin would match the paper tape results
> > transmitted to the BoE.
> >
> > i did poll watching at my precinct as much of an
> > educational exercise as anything else. i really had no
> > expectation of catching any hanky panky other than the
> > rare chance there might be challengers following
> > voters into the polling place. i know the folks at my
> > BoE well enough to know nothing is going on with them.
> > the fact that NC improved its percentage in favor of
> > the Dem presidential candidate by 7 points over the
> > 2000 result makes me even feel reasonably secure
> > enough my state's results are close enough to honest.
> > i am wildly concerned about Florida and Ohio, however.
> > conditions were pretty ripe there, and one or two
> > states is all it really takes.
> >
> > 3
> >
> >
> >
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