From: Michael Lorrey (mike@datamann.com)
Date: Sat Feb 10 2001 - 12:26:43 MST
Spike Jones wrote:
>
> > J Corbally wrote:
> > > Sorry, did you say "HONEST ELECTIONS"?? *James feels overwhelming
> > > gurgle of laughter build in his stomach..*
> >
> > Michael Lorrey wrote: How are our elections dishonest?
>
> There was an interesting blurb in the local paper about this
> yesterday. When doing exit polling, the pollsters must always
> add a small percentage to the Democratic ticket in order to
> correctly predict the final outcome. This has never been explained
> to my knowledge, why the small percentage must always
> be added to the Dems, but it seems to hold historically.
> They dont say what those percentages are.
Ah, well, this goes hand in hand with Democratic ballot stuffing, which
would imply not that Bush won dishonestly, but that he won despite the
systemic dishonesty of Democrats.
I also saw a TV interview of the guy who invented the voting machines
used in Florida. He said the most frequent cause of dimpled chads was
the punching of multiple ballots at the same time, stacked on top of
each other, that the machines can punch up to 5 ballots at the same
time.... no wonder there were so many Democratic dimpled chads.
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