It's my belief that palm beach county would appear as an outlier on similar
plots for every county or district in the entire USA.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Lewycky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 12:22 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Stats on Palm Beach votes
>
>
> 1) The ballot form was made public and widely distributed well in
> advance of the election. The print was larger than normal to
> assist the
> elderly. The ballot was a single page. If they had used a conventional
> list then it would've been two pages long (possibly with Gore on the
> second page). Both parties saw nothing wrong with the form
> and approved
> it's use.
> 2) How many people thought that they were voting for Buchanan when
> inadervtently they marked Gore? How many thought that they
> were marking
> Bush but punched the hole for another candidate?
>
> Juan Zuluaga wrote:
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> > Date: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 3:57 PM -0500
> > From: Greg Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Subject: important: election results
> >
> > As you probably all know, Bush has 1700 more votes in
> Florida over Gore.
> > However, folks in Palm Beach were complaining that their
> ballots were
> > confusing, and many people voted for Buchanan when they
> thought they were
> > voting for Gore. With the help of my wife Chris, I
> analyzed the county by
> > county presidential results for Florida. The results are
> clear: the ballot
> > for Palm Beach cost Gore approximately 2200 votes. A
> simple regression of
> > Buchanan's vote on Bush's vote shows that Buchanan should
> have only gotten
> > 800 votes, not 3400.
> >
> > Don't believe me? Look for yourself: It's not even close!
> Palm Beach is
> > an outlier beyond all belief!!!
> >
> > http://madison.hss.cmu.edu/palm-beach.pdf
> >
> > I need help getting these results out to the world. If you
> have media
> > contacts or now how to tip them, please have them contact
> me asap. Thanks.
> >
> > ---------- End Forwarded Message ----------
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > David Krackhardt, Professor of Organizations
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> http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~krack/academic/
>
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