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Posted
on 14-Nov-00 03:32 PM
This is re present turmoil in American President
election, where two candidates are seeking edge in
a razor-thin margin:
Fact1: The candidates are 0.0016% apart by
two machine recounts. The errror or noise of the ballot
reading machines is about 1%. Within the noise !
Two questions :
Why did banks,insurance companies,credit card companies
getaway from punched cards to very sophisticate optical
readers with very sophisticated handwriting recognition
-if punched cards are so accurate ?
If the vote tallying business is so lucrative,and ifIBM
developed the technology - originally for the Census
Bureau when IBM's biggest line of business was
delicatessen scales -why did they get out of it?
Because the IBM "belt and suspenders"lawyers knew how
inaccurate these systems were - they had heard it from
every bank and insurance company in the US- and they
didn't want a bunch of IBM executives sitting in a
court room being cross-examined by James Baker and
Warren Christopher - or sitting in a Senate Hearing
Room being questioned by Arlen Specter and Richard
Shelby.
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