Reply #16: *Obviously you haven't considered the rBrei theory.

[Peace Patriot]

(Reluctant Bush Reporter of Election Incidents.)

They're shy, you know. And, gazing upon a Touchscreen changing their vote for Jesus W. Bush to a vote for John ("the spawn of Salem witches") Kerry, would have merely fallen to their knees and silently prayed to be delivered from the Devil in the machine. They most certainly would not have reported it to the Bush "pod people" in Congress, nor screamed bloody murder about the demonic liberal plot to steal the election from the Redeemer. Not them.

So, it's sample bias, you see. Shy, retiring, meditative types, who wouldn't do anything like throw all the Democrats out of their church, or arrest teenagers for wearing Kerry T-shirts.

The quiet guy at your family gathering, who wouldn't dream of disrupting Thanksgiving dinner with Rush Limbaugh talking points.

The meek little woman on the school board who wants to dis-inter Charles Darwin's remains, ship them over here to the FBI Lab, and subject them to drug testing.

(I made that one up.)

So, re-weighting this raw number--86 out of 88--for shy Republican voters for Bush, who, because they don't believe in government, would not have been likely to have reported incidents of machines that may have changed Kerry votes to Bush votes, and therefore indicating that these 2 out of 88 reported incidents carried a higher motivational weight than the other 86, according to the rBrei motivational index (see Table 2); and, in addition, presuming the Touchscreens to have been sufficiently tested by company personnel, as certified by state election officials who had no idea how the damn things worked, as to be able to presume any errors to have been random, and not intentional or malicious, and presuming that Republicans always vote and Democrats never do, the only conclusion that can be reached is that the 2 real incidents of a Touchscreen changing an intended vote, both involving a vote intended for Bush that was changed to Kerry, were anomalous random events, and even if hundreds of such incidents may well have occurred, as indicated by the high motivational index for the 2 real reports, there is a 99.9% probability that it was the Devil who did it, and not liberals, and 100% probablity that neither this nor any other conceivable factor could have altered the final, official, certified, slam dunk, forgone conclusion that Bush would win. Not since the beginning of time, 4,000 years ago, has there ever been anything as certain as this.

In summary: 86 = 0. 2 = D. Nothing to see here. Move along.

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*Footnote 1: Yours is too big a number for the Universe to have been created in. God does not think that big.