Spooky Coincidence in CA Gov. Ballot's Random Letter Assignment(ends with 'FL')

Another Free Republic Thread ^ | 8/11/03 | A. Cheeselover

[Diddle E. Squat]

Ok, check this out. CA today did a random drawing of letters to determine the order of names on the ballot. Outlined in detail the thread in the above source. In post#38, Freeper BushCountry noted the wierdest thing, that this completely random drawing process ended up with F and L being the last 2 letters.

Here is the entire order resulting from a random drawing of lettered balls(like in a lottery drawing):

1-R
2-W
3-Q
4-O
5-J
6-M
7-V
8-A
9-H
10-B
11-S
12-G
13-Z
14-X
15-N
16-T
17-C
18-I
19-E
20-K
21-U
22-P
23-D
24-Y
25-F
26-L

[Koblenz]

The odds that one of the two letter 50 state abbreviations (or DC) appears in the last two slots is 7.8462%. There are 650 combinations you can make with two letters, and 51 of them are valid. No state abbreviations repeat their letter. The odds that FL appears is 1/650.

The odds that FL appears somewhere in the list is one in 26. There are 25 two letter combinations formed (1-2,2-3,3-4, and so on, down to 25-26). For any one of them, the odds that "FL" appears is one in 650, so the odds that FL appears somewhere is 25 in 650, or 1 in 26. So I guess seeing FL isn't that surprising. We don't see CA, and that'd be even more surprising. We also didn't see ARNOLD. The chances of that happening would be about 1 in 7.893 million. The chance of GRAY or CRUZ appearing would be 1 in 15,600. And the chance of seeing ARIANNA is ZERO.

[not_apathetic_anymore]

I believe that the F L at the end means it will take as long to read the ballot as it did to tally the Florida 2000 vote! It will if the democrats have anything to do with it!

Yup. I already saw a headline from the LA times today something about election night chaos. (well that's my paraphrase, and since I won't register all I read was the headline)

[arasina]

I rather like the R being Number One, followed by my favorite R, W. :o)

[onyx]

Interesting, but to me it means "diddle - e - squat" --- sorry!

[Freebird Forever]

If more than one page is needed, will the voters who forgot to turn the page be "disenfranchised"?

More then likely, some of raisinlands finest will vote for a candidate on each page.

[Hildy]

Wouldn't it have been much easier just to do it alphabetically so people can actually FIND the person they wanted to vote. This is so freakin stupid.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Good work.

[Diddle E. Squat]

I'm waiting for Pastor Chuck Baldwin to claim that it means Bush is the antichrist...

[PoorMuttly]

If you look at it sideways, it spells "Paul is Dead."

Well...sort-of

[onyx]

I'm waiting for Pastor Chuck Baldwin to claim that it means Bush is the antichrist...

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When he does, by all means PING me, FReep mail me, send up a smoke signal!

[hole_n_one]

Ya just gotta check out #41

LOL!

[hole_n_one]

I rather like the R being Number One, followed by my favorite R, W.

Sweet!

[swheats]

Oh man we know who to ping for trivial pursuit.

[TwoSue]

10-B
11-S

[hole_n_one]

[CyberAnt]

Not only will the ballot have several pages - which is understandable, but we will also have SEVERAL PUNCHCARDS - how many "elderly" are going to whine they used the wrong card ...... I can hear it all now!!!

I think we're talking FLORIDUH - MULTIPLIED BY 10!

[CyberAnt]

Thanks for all the corny, quirky, idiot things you guys said - I haven't laughed that much in the last 3 days.

[hole_n_one]

Terminator

[Waco]

Voters who recently moved from Palm Beach County will be keppt in a separate pen......How did Fumbduck get in there.??