Reply #27: Arnebeck was referring to this recount: [View All]

[eomer]

Florida Ballots Project

A group of the largest news organizations in the United States selected NORC to provide the definitive picture of the Florida ballots in the uncertified presidential election of November 2000. The media group chose NORC for this work because of NORC's long-standing reputation for nonpartisan, objective, and analytically rigorous data collection and analysis. Kirk Wolter, NORC’s Senior Vice President of Statistics and Methodology and Professor of Statistics at the University of Chicago, has directed NORC's effort on the project.

http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/fl/index.asp

They created a database containing every ballot and the condition of its chads. Then they ran nine different scenarios of which counties were counted according to which standard. They multiplied the nine scenarios times two agreement criteria (majority vs. unanimous) for a total of eighteen different possible results. Gore won under most of them, including the one where you counted all ballots.