R: Re: CHAT (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida

Nik wrote:

> Roger Mills wrote:
> > Somewhere recently I heard "The Grinch who stole the Election", one of
whose
> > memorable couplets was more or less:
> >         "Now they're counting by hand--
> >         Hey, that's not what Jeb planned...."
>
> I saw that one.
>
> Personally, I doubt we'll ever know who genuinely won.  I mean, if the
> machines had even a .05% margin of error, that would translate into a
> 3000-vote margin, and no one's ever done any studies to figure out how
> accurate the machines are.
>
This is a tragicommedy!

Here on the other side of the pond votes are *always* counted manually (at
least in Italy). Nevertheless, we have the results the day after...

Luca, who's going nuts because of these elections!