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Re: [Fwd: RE: MTBF for voting machines] part 2



Rebecca says:

> Actually, even the so-called "random" failures can introduce skew.

Definitely, especially if we create a model and call "random" anything
the model doesn't cover.  The consent decree in Common Cause v. Jones
didn't depend on the Votomatic errors having any systematic bias.
They could.  But even if they didn't, their error rate would have
a systematic civil rights impact and a systematic effect on the total
vote count.

Dave.