Reply #83: My interest is purely partisan [View All]

[mgr]

I always try to limit my scope. I got a little carried away addressing what method of vote tallying is superior, and recalling what my stepfather had to say about the 1960 election.

Snohomish is outside the EIRS, I grant you it is an exception, but the county was on the radar before 2004, right? These other places were not. It would almost suggest that Snohomish has a proclivity that other BOEs might not--Washington, like the Bay area (and other places I am not familiar with), may have BOE personnel more computer savvy than elsewhere, and possibly a little less than honest. My interpretation has a lot to do with Foo Bar's reconciliation project, and Skid's early work that I never bookmarked but reviewed EIRS in response to (thank you Foo Bar for the memory prompt)

If one were to review the EIRS reports, the patterning is more highly complex with movements in all different directions, that discernible directionality with intent is impossible if all you are looking at is vote switching.

Until I can see that addressing the matter of who won the presidential contest is moot, I am not inclined to debate the merits of what the best alternative vote counting approach is feasible here on DU--I only have so much fight in me. My general take is that I think hand counts may be feasible in Podunk, population 40,000, but I would see it as a nightmare in megalopolis (population 10,000,000); and playing havoc with our 'need it now' culture. But I am not set in concrete on this.

Mike