Word: counting
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...urban and minority, in booming population centers like Atlanta, Miami and Las Vegas, and the nation's cities are classic Democratic stomping grounds. To assume Florida stays red after the 2000 election fiasco is an exercise in denial. And when the census gets its close-view, block-by-block count finished in March, those urban and minority head-counts will give Bush a chance to address the problems with his election in Florida - or irk those groups all over again...
...Although census workers attempt to count every man, woman and child in America every ten years, a perfect count is unattainable, especially in the poor and urban areas that are traditionally Democratic. People get missed. And statistical sampling is how the Census Bureau makes...
...addition to the nationwide head count covering the nation's 11 million "blocks," workers take another survey of 11,800 blocks, selected at random. When comparisons between the two counts of that sample turn up discrepancies, the bureau tallies them up, produces a statistical model, and applies that model to the rest of the country, theoretically producing a more accurate total count...
...Florida, only ballots that were not punched at all, nicked or partly punched should have been set aside [ELECTION 2000, Dec. 4]. Then those ballots should have been evaluated and recounted by hand and the total of valid votes added to the original machine count. This process should not take more than 48 hours. (It would take less than 24 hours in Canada!) Anyone objecting to it and finding legal reasons for multiple delays and a total recount is a partisan who has a vested interest in the result. If there is serious concern that the machine counts could...
Bush is a little vague on a lot of things. Yes, we are looking at a steep learning curve. The worst moment of the 36-day Long Count was probably when Bush, attempting to "look presidential," held a mock Cabinet meeting, in the course of which he observed in an appallingly chipper manner, "There are issues in Israel right now that I'm looking forward to hearing about...