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Re: Supreme Kangaroos join election theft

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From: Professor Vonroach
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:00
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On 29 Nov 2000 05:33:37 GMT, Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@rahul.net> wrote:

>Thus a manual count is
>always at least as accurate as a machine count, and may be
>more accurate.

Nope, no way. Human errors will far outdistance `hanging chads'.
Dimpled chads is an entirely phony concept. Intention is ambiguous as
any sensible person knows. If humans are so reliable, I wonder why
banks and other enterprises are depending more and more on computers? 
Main source of error even in these circumstances remains human error
by the customer or clerk.
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From: vonroach@popd.ix.netcom.com (Professor Vonroach)
Subject: Re: Supreme Kangaroos join election theft
Date: 2000/11/29
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