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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
I agree Thoran -- the problem in 2000 was simple: the margin of victory was smaller than the margin of error. I'd propose something other than a coin toss to solve the problem, of course. Maybe have the candidates arm wrestle or play jeopardy. We wouldn't have had this problem without the electoral college.
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Well, here's a surprise. I also agree that the problem was that the result in FLA was inside the margin of error.
Frankly, I don't think that it's really possible to eliminate this. Oh, we can certainly do our best to use better voting processes, etc., etc. But there will always be some level of error in any human process. And this does not account for any corruption, like voting in the graveyard dictricts, or hiding the ballot boxes from precincts that vote heavily one way or the other, etc., etc.