CT Blue

 Back in the 60s, I used to watch a TV series called The Defenders, about a father-son team of defense lawyers. I remember in one show the father quoted an aphorism to his son to the effect that it was better that 1000 guilty men go free rather than one innocent man be convicted. Of course we’ve put such old fashioned thinking behind us, but the mathematical principle apparently live on throughout the land, as we have apparently decided that it is better that thousands of legitimate voters be turned away rather than one invalid ballot be cast.