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more on It's not a glitch, darn it.
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:55:31 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt () gulbrandsen priv no> Date: November 8, 2004 10:21:09 AM EST To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> Cc: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] more on It's not a glitch, darn it. (For IP, if you wish.) Rich Kulawiec writes:
Honest/impartial/competent people -- and their hardware and software agents, and their processes, still make mistakes.So I ask again: how do you KNOW?
You don't. You can choose to trust that the result is correct, and you can choose to trust that the counting system works better overall than the system previously used, but you can't know. You can choose to trust that the third-party auditing of the machine was satisfactory, but you can't know. (AFAICT the auditing was, ah, a bit on the brief side.)
You have to weigh circumstances and make your decisions. Demanding all or nothing may just get you nothing.
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