Reply #9: Some questions... [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

NC: You have 5% paper, but ignatzmouse said it had a 30% absentee ballot vote (with big, impossible discrepancy on Bush margin--6%, as I recall--between ab voting and e-voting; and a similar discrepancy in the Senate vote, and in a lib ballot initiative v. Bush vote). Why only 5% paper?

NY: Do you know how the lever votes are computerized, and centrally tabulated (who manufactures central tabulators? secret source code? etc.)

I'm finding your posted tables hard to read (had a lot of trouble last night with pre-election poll/exit poll table--correlating column titles with numbers). In this one, would you briefly explain what the first column titles (EV*Dev EV Dev) and the first three numbers mean? (How do the column title abbreviations separate out into column titles? What does the asterisk mean, in EV*?)

I'm puzzled by NY and CA's first three numbers:

NY: -118 31 -3.8
CA: 86 55 1.6

What does the "-118" for NY mean?

(Note: the numbers/words in the image is so small, it's not helping.)

Have some pity for old eyes, and for us literary types. And...

THANK YOU FOR YOUR AWESOME WORK!!!!!!

I have to leave shortly, but will return to this post late tonight to study this again.