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AL GORE'S ILL-GOTTEN VOTE GAINS
Meet Tom Carroll. He's an economics professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Since last Thursday, Carroll has been running statistical analyses on the net vote gains Al Gore and George W. Bush have made in the Florida recounts. Gore, as you know, has picked up about 2,200 votes, and Bush has added about 700 votes to his total.
Carroll found that the statistical chances for such large and different totals (more votes for Gore than for Bush during the recounts) are about one in 49 million. Basically, the odds of Gore picking up more than 1,500 votes are about the same as the likelihood of a single person getting hit by lightning 30 times.
What it all boils down to is that something very fishy has been going on in Florida over the past week--as if you didn't already know that. Think about it. Shouldn't a recount increase the numbers of votes for all candidates uniformly, rather than overwhelmingly lopsided, as the recounts have turned up more votes in favor of Al Gore?
But Gore supporters would tell you that they just want a "fair and accurate count that expresses the will of the people." And if the will of the people is for Gore to beat 1-in-49-million odds and magically pick up votes in Florida, well, so be it.
It doesn't add up. http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/archives/2000/nov/10/511018638.html
AL GORE'S ILL-GOTTEN VOTE GAINS
Meet Tom Carroll. He's an economics professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Since last Thursday, Carroll has been running statistical analyses on the net vote gains Al Gore and George W. Bush have made in the Florida recounts. Gore, as you know, has picked up about 2,200 votes, and Bush has added about 700 votes to his total.
Carroll found that the statistical chances for such large and different totals (more votes for Gore than for Bush during the recounts) are about one in 49 million. Basically, the odds of Gore picking up more than 1,500 votes are about the same as the likelihood of a single person getting hit by lightning 30 times.
What it all boils down to is that something very fishy has been going on in Florida over the past week--as if you didn't already know that. Think about it. Shouldn't a recount increase the numbers of votes for all candidates uniformly, rather than overwhelmingly lopsided, as the recounts have turned up more votes in favor of Al Gore?
But Gore supporters would tell you that they just want a "fair and accurate count that expresses the will of the people." And if the will of the people is for Gore to beat 1-in-49-million odds and magically pick up votes in Florida, well, so be it.
It doesn't add up. http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/archives/2000/nov/10/511018638.html
