Word: counted
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...They knew that with the hand-count inclusion issue before Democratic-appointed Florida high court that had already given pesky Palm Beach County explicit permission to begin one, it wasn't over legally, not by a long shot. But they held out hope that the Supremes would kick this one back to Judge Lewis, or maybe even uphold his decision...
...constitution calls for an "actual numeration" of American citizens. Simple, right? Not so fast. It's not the number of people or the number of votes, but how you count them. It's not the votes or the folks, it's the methodology...
...remedy this, the U.S. Census Bureau has proposed using statistical sampling to improve the accuracy of the final tally. That means they would do an actual physical count of as many people as they can find in a given census tract, and then employ a mathematical model to fill in the holes...
...probably saying to yourself, Isn't that the opposite of what's going on in Florida, where the Democrats are saying count every vote and the Republicans are saying, hey, let's not be fanatics here about trying to count every last person...
...right. You see, the Democrats want to count everybody for one simple reason: They believe there are more Democratic bodies out there than Republican ones, and those bodies who are disproportionately undercounted are typically Dems. They also know, though they're not going to embarrass their supporters by shouting about it, that Democratic voters mess up more when they get inside the voting booth. That's why in the case of the census the Democrats are in favor of sampling and in the case of Florida they're in favor of counting every last hanging chad. More is better...