Let's not jump the gun here. The evidence is that there is "potentially something unusual" - it doesn't warrant an assumption on what or that the election was run improperly. There are many, many possibilities:
+) It could be (as has been suggested) that the study itself is flawed in some (or many) ways (scientifically this isn't problem: failure is often just as useful to science as success). If that were the case then work should be done to create accurate metrics for election quality. +) The study may in fact be accurate, but may still be missing important information which makes it's conclusions flawed. +) The study may be accurate and accurately portray the chances as incredible, but they could still be correct. We are, after all dealing with something that's improbable, not something impossible. +) The study does seem to make assumptions on the quality of the polling. These assumptions could be wrong for any number of reasons. In other words the election process could be of high quality while the polling process isn't. This leads us again to improving the system by which measure the quality of the process. +) The election process could indeed be screwed up someplace. However I find it unlikely that the process is screwed up in all three of the target states. Remember that each of these states has different processes in place: it strikes me as very unlikely (tho' not impossible) that they're all screwed up. +) Most likely in my opinion we'll find (if indeed we bother to try) that a combination of all of the above will be at fault. Jim Davis -----Original Message----- From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 11:43 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Election Audit Petition S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Particularly when this task is responsible for putting in place the > people responsible for putting federal mandates in place which > override state laws. To me this issue is simple: if there are legitmate questions about the outcome of an election, then the election wasn't run properly. (scientific evidence = legitimate in this case) The exit polls and they don't match the result - so the government should investigate. Every American should want an election that is error free. If this one wasn't then it's our own fault and we should all pay the price for our shoddy system. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:135854 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
