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...explain how his imperfect machine is more likely to produce dimpled chads in the vote for President than for other offices, because that column gets clogged by getting the most use and therefore harder to punch out cleanly as the day goes on. Boies took special delight in his statistician, a Yale professor resembling Professor Irwin Corey, who pointed out that the undervote in counties that used punch cards was five times as high as that in counties that used other methods. But Boies has also shown uncharacteristic passion in the election battle. Alarmed that "a mob stormed the canvassing...
...soon as the trial recommenced, Bush attorney Phil Beck (who treated Gore statistician Nicolas Hengartner with such disdain Saturday) called his own, heavily accented statistician to the stand. Dr. Laurentius Marais, who spoke with an unidentifiable lilt, was straightforward and extremely convincing as he tried to tear down the basis of the Gore team's statistical argument. The vice president's lawyers, said Beck, are showing us numbers indicating that if all votes were counted, Gore would certainly win. Is their assumption correct...
...cross-examination, David Boies called Marais' logic into question, asking the statistician if he'd ever completed a full analysis of the precincts or counties in question...
...This cross didn't land any lethal blows to Marais' testimony - but it did create an undercurrent of doubt as to the statistician's claims, which is all Boies could hope to do at this point...
...After a 45-minute lunch break, which gave the cable news pundits the opportunity to rehash the first five hours of excruciatingly arcane testimony, Gore's team called their second and final witness: Statistician Nicolas Hengartner...