[ale] Its over. Maybe

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 21:44, James P. Kinney III wrote:

> 
> So if one vote out of ten for candidate A were swapped to be for
> candidate B in close race states and there was no way to detect the
> change since the mechanics are not allowed access, it is not hard to
> envision that the final outcome could be suspect. 

For example, let's take the retirement state, Florida.

According to the poll data from CNN, the final outcome was
Bush   3,838,376
Kerry  3,460,867

If some underhanded, nefarious subterfuge were to occur that migrated
1/10 of the Bush vote to Kerry, then the outcome would have been
Bush   3453835
Kerry  3845407

which would have moved  27 electoral votes away from Bush and given
Kerry the upper edge of 268.

I'm going to go dig up my old copy of Orwell's 1984 and reread it now.

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