Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 18:01:16 11/17/00
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On November 17, 2000 at 17:12:30, Thorsten Czub wrote: >if they now decide not to count anymore, but they have votes to count, > >they do not fullfill the wish of the people who have voted. > >if they don't want to count the votes, why elections anyway ???? > >for me there are one 2 possibilites: > >to count the votes (ALLLLLLLLLL votes) or NOT to count the votes. > >start counting and then by decision of a lawyer stop counting, that >is like a coitus interruptus by a direct order/command of a lawyer. > >Unbelievable that something like this exists in a democratic country. > >if USA IS a democratic country. i thought it is, but maybe this was only >prejudice. > >as it looks to me (in the moment - only my personal opinion) >the usa is not anymore democratic. the counting remembers me >on UdSSR elections... btw. > > >i can't believe that what the news of CNN and others tells me is true. > >this is not a democracy. in a democracy the people decide >the person or party they want to elect. not a lawyer. and ALL >votes have to be counted, not only the votes of people without glasses >or with white colored skin or living in NY or in LA. > >what is this ? can't they just count the votes ? > >it seems the bean counters are not able to count to 10. >they stop with 8 because the lawyer says: time limit reached ! I do decide. > > >the best satire is always coming from live. Since when should we put all of our faith in a MACHINE? Does anybody remember the days when one had to communicate with the mainframe by using a card reader? What a disaster! And I remember the days of holes punched in a tape! Plenty of down-time, and you could never trust the reader to render an accurate reading. When automatic postal sorting machines first came out, they not only spit out mail in large numbers but chewed them up! When I played correspondence chess by "snail mail" a few years ago, I received some postcards in multiple pieces on different days! And then there is the case of the automatic check-readers used by banks. If you folded your check, the machine couldn't read the check! The list goes on and on! I remember a science fiction story wherein the whole world had put the control of the government in the hands of the "much smarter" computer. You can emagine what happened next. No, I do not trust machines. Not even chess engines. Human evaluation may someday be inferior to what you get out of a machine, but that day will be centuries in coming. Let the people do it by hand if they wish. I will have much more faith in people than any machines. And holes punched in a card?????? That's straight out of a horror movie!
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