re: #250 Obdicut
Just a point of view-Winners of a elections whose results fall well into the actual error range are likely a random result. This nail biting over tenths of a percent is foolish. May as well flip a coin. When it’s that close both sides failed to really prevail.
I had a long chat with a stats pro guy about it. It looks to me like the 95% confidence would put the error range at plus or minus about 2%. Personally, I’m not at all convinced hand counts reduce that, especially with a messed up ballot, messed up cards or as we see a write in.
2000 showed all of this.