Reply #53: I think you meant 10% -- and, no, I don't think he's serious [View All]

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(I.e., in your scenario, 10% of the 500 Dem votes were switched to Rep votes.)

Board regulars are pretty familiar with your beliefs about the 2004 election and DREs, and I know that you have explained them to Land Shark at length.

Dunno, I'm still scratching my head over this: "This type of assumption would be ok with an indelible medium such as paper and indelible ink, but with electrons it is either meaningless or nearly meaningless to say one's vote was 'counted' or had a 'high chance of being counted.'" Well, no, it isn't. I suppose we are wandering into metaphysics here, but whether I cast my vote on a lever machine, a paper ballot, or a DRE, I want to know that it was counted as I intended to cast it. (There is no indelible record of my individual lever-machine vote -- but I'm not at all sure that a vote on paper would be more likely to be counted.) It's perfectly appropriate to question whether DRE votes (and votes by other methods) are accurately counted. I don't understand why someone would insist that, on the contrary, the question is "either meaningless or nearly meaningless."