IP: Counting away (after a while)

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Reply-To: <jdp@newmath.UCR.EDU>
>From: "John de Pillis" <jdp@newmath.UCR.EDU>
>To: "Farber, Dave" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>
>
>Hi Dave,
>
>Now that the Supreme Court has forbidden
>ballot counting, IPers may be interested
>in adding their voice to encourage the
>Miami Herald to conduct, not only a ballot count,
>but an ITEMIZED ballot count in Florida, once the dust settles.
>
>I attach my original letter to Mr. Alberto Ibarguen(*)
>Publisher and Chairman of the Herald, in which an itemized
>count is requested.
>
>His tentatively positive response is also attached
>for IPers' information .
>Alberto Ibarguen e-mail = aibarguen@herald.com
>
>Thanks, Dave.
>
>John
>
>-----Original Message-----
>============[ letter to Miami Herald from John de Pillis ]=====
>
>                                 -----Original Message-----
>From:   deP [mailto:jdp@newmath.UCR.EDU]
>Sent:   Sunday, December 10, 2000 3:02 PM
>To:     Ibarguen, Alberto
>Subject:        a post-election suggestion on how to produce AGREEMENT
>
>PURPOSE of this LETTER:
>=======================
>In order to produce a sense of FAIR PLAY among ALL
>parties concerned, and to avoid bickering
>about the Herald's supposed biases, may I suggest
>a manner of tabulation when you publish the
>results of      your post-debacle ballot count?
>
>WHAT "MANNER" is THAT?
>======================
>No one can claim objectivity and fair play
>are compromised IF your punch-card readings are
>tabulated according to ALL recognized chad categories,
>e.g.,
>                     Bush         Gore
>full-hole punch      x             x
>3-corner             x             x
>2-corner             x             x
>pregnant             x             x
>hanging              x             x
>etc. (whatever is necessary)
>That is, do NOT just list "good" cards and "bad" cards --- that
>would be a listing of your OPINION .  This will only rekindle the
>firestorms of protest.  An all-inclusive
>listing, as suggested,  will not.
>
>THE RESULT?
>===========
>If ALL categories are listed, fairness will be served.
>
>Also, I would bet (sure, this is my guess) that the same
>winner will result regardless of how the chads are classified.
>
>It would be interesting to test this mathematician's guess.
>Thank you,
>John de Pillis
>===================================
>   John de Pillis
>    Professor of Mathematics
>    University of California
>    Riverside, CA  92521
>      tel:  909-789-0978
>      fax   909-789-8886
>
>===[ reply from Miami Herald ]==============
>From: Ibarguen, Alberto [mailto:AIbarguen@herald.com]
>Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 9:26 PM
>To: 'deP'
>Cc: Baron, Martin; Seibel, Mark (Miami)
>Subject: RE: a post-election suggestion on how to produce AGREEMENT
>
>Interesting.  I'm going to share it with the editors.
>
>As to "the Heralds' supposed biases," I assume you know that
>for every article, we get "bias" claims from both sides of any issue as
>hotly contested and passionately argued as this one.
>
>Thanks.
>Alberto Ibargüen
>=========[ E N D ]========================================



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