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to: Glenn Meadows
from: John Cuccia
date: 2004-11-03 15:53:40
subject: Re: How to do it better....

From: John Cuccia 

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:41:43 -0600, "Glenn Meadows"
 wrote:

>I think when there are large margins of victory, we all tend to gloss over
>the low background noise of potential fraud.  It's when things get really
>close, that issues like dead people voting, obviously bogus names on rolls
>become the focus.

Don't forget simple things like human error and sloppy processes (lost
paperwork, for example), too,  in a close election.

Bill Lucy talked at some length about this (based on his experiences as a
poll worker) during the Florida recount in 2000.

>I'm glad that this did not turn out to be a close call like 2000 was

Me too.

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