2 election workers convicted of rigging '04 presidential recount

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

I took the numbers from your very own post. I'll say it again because I know how fast your mind works. ALL of the votes were not recounted. These people were found guilty of cherry picking ballots in order to prevent a full recount.

I know that, but there were only around 655,000 or so votes cast in that county and Kerry could not have picked up 118,000 votes with W gaining none in that county. Moreover, you cannot accurately use that 2.83 in every county because surely it did not apply in heavily R counties or even counties were the vote was split more evenly.

If I had the time, I'd love to get a team of statisticians and go to each county, recount by hand each vote and then apply the stat to that.

Again, I think the true fault is with the long lines, etc.