[lbo-talk] severe exit poll discrepancies

[Shane Mage]

More proof that irony is wasted on the internet:
>I assume you are referring to the Voting Technology Project? I 
>haven't seen a paper from the project you list available on their 
>website. Do you have a link to it? Why do you hold the work of 
>Steven Graves, Jehoshua, Charles Stewart or Jonathan Katz in higher 
>regard than Steven Freeman?
>
>John Thornton
>Three days off line and I feel like I've been gone two weeks!
>
>>This can be debunked rather easily. I will summarize the basic 
>>argument as follows:
>>
>>"This is just another internet conspiracy theory. A Cal Tech-MIT 
>>project under the direction of highly credible people like Charles 
>>Vest and David Baltimore has determined that all of these 
>>conspiracy theories can be restated in such a way so that an 
>>elegant if irrelevant analysis of data applied to its straw-man 
>>question will show that you're a stupid stupid person whom we laugh 
>>at! Hah hah! So shut up, you Steven Freeman you!"
>>
>>I hope this clears things up.
>>
>>
>>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>>Date:  Sun, 14 Nov 2004 14:59:29 -0800
>>
>>>Steven Freeman of the University of Pennsylvania concludes:
>>>
>>>"My purpose in this paper has not been to allege election theft, let
>>>alone explain it. Rather, I have tried to demonstrate that exit poll
>>>data is fundamentally sound, that the deviations between exit poll
>>>predictions and vote tallies in the three critical battleground
>>>states could not have occurred strictly by chance or random error,
>>>and that no solid explanations have yet been provided to explain the
>>>discrepancy. In short, I have tried to justify the discrepancy as a
>>>legitimate issue that warrants public attention."
>>>
>>> 
>>><http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/04/11/The_unexplained_exit_poll_discrepancy_v00k.pdf>
>
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