# What are the lessons of Election 2000? The official report **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 1, 2001, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-lessons-of-election-2000-the-official-report/74441 "2001-08-01T04:51:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-lessons-of-election-2000-the-official-report/74441/81 "2001-08-08T04:22:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tedster \* > **95 Per Cent plus voting accuracy is not “hideously bad” or whatever somebody opined, given 50 different states, without any standardization among these states, and given various intelligence levels, that’s pretty good. No, I wouldn’t accept a 4 Per Cent error from my bank, but I don’t have 80 million different accounts with 80 million different tellers, either. What’s your point?** The point is that since we can do better than 95% accuracy with electronic touch screens, we should. Why settle for less? > [@](#): > > **The standards were clear in florida, but they chose to ignore them.** That’s exactly the point that I’m trying to make. Certain people at certain voting locations were not allowed to cast votes based on various technicaliities, despite the fact that the rules clearly stated that it was legal for them to vote. The obvious solution is that these people should have been allowed to cast their ballots, and an organized board would them decide which ones were valid and which ones weren’t. > [@](#): > > **As far as a “civics” test- I don’t see it as asking a whole lot for voters to be able to name, oh, say the current vice president, the senators from their home state, or who we fought during world war II.** Nobody has said that they don’t personally think that such standards are reasonable. But you still haven’t explained where you’re getting the authority to remove voting rights based on such a test. And you also haven’t answered my original questions: Who writes this test? Who decides what standards are appropriate? How is the test administered? And who pays for it? > [@](#): > > **Oops, sorry for the common sense and logic,** If that post meets your definition of logical, I would hate to see a post that you consider to be illogical. :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-lessons-of-election-2000-the-official-report/74441.md?page=4)