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Trillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 02:41 PM
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4. Paper Ballots as Control Group
Edited on Wed Mar-16-05 02:42 PM by SimpleTrend
My summary of Jack Rabbit's post: Because a control group is not there now, nothing can be proved; if nothing can be proved the null hypothesis of nothing is wrong must be accepted.

This reminds me of the following absurdity: if a bank doesn't track money going in and out of accounts, then it can't be proven money is ever stolen, therefore we can conclude money is never stolen.


To me it sounds like an argument for paper ballots as a control group.
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