> > If the ballot jam had happened at 2:23:52PM
instead of
> 1:13:24PM, what are
> > you going to conclude as the
election administrator?
> >
> >
> Sometimes they
actually call the inspector and pollworkers to ask what
> happened.
The more information they have the better they can discuss with
> the
pollworkers. As I said, the statistical approach would help them
>
explain to others, the log approach would help them reconstruct the
>
explanation.
I don't mean to be pedantic here, and certainly don't
want to pick on Steve, but this relates to do with other log requests we
have had, so I will take one more crack at this.
What, exactly, are you going to "reconstruct"? Give me a realistic scenario where an election administrator, armed with the times that the ballots jammed, could conclude anything interesting about the election that they couldn't conclude armed with the stat.
Ken