"Wherever there's an objective measurement, we want to be in that space, " he says.

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We need to give the official an objective measurement tool.

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In an election fraught with ironies, here is one more: Al Gore , the putative inventor of the Internet, when faced with the perfect test of his belief in empirical solutions to the world's problems, immediately threw out objective, electro-mechanical vote counting in lieu of the most subjective of measurement schemes--teams of politically biased observers peering at increasingly mangled paper ballots.

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