Conservative bloggers Ann Althouse and Cindy Kilkenny wildly disagree when it comes to the matter of verifying the signatures being gathered to recall Scott Walker.
Althouse says it’s impossible.
Kilkenny says it’s doable, and with the right software maybe even easy.
How can this be? Aren’t they both right all the time? Maybe one of them misread the daily memo?
From Wikipedia: Recognition of Latin-script, typewritten text is still not 100% accurate even where clear imaging is available. One study based on recognition of 19th- and early 20th-century newspaper pages concluded that character-by-character OCR accuracy for commercial OCR software varied from 71% to 98%;[2] total accuracy can be achieved only by human review. Other areas—including recognition of hand printing, cursive handwriting, and printed text in other scripts (especially those East Asian language characters which have many strokes for a single character)—are still the subject of active research.
I don’t think OCR is going to help verify very easily…other forms of software could ‘solve’ the duplication issue but would require someone actually doing data entry at some point…then search and sort functions could be used…but for now eyeballs are going to be the method I think.
Perhaps they are really the same person and just practicing flip flopping for a someday run at the Presidency on the GOP side?
One more sandwich, and Cindy will be a picnic.