'We can be 99.9% sure that these effects are not attributable to chance"
A group of doctoral students in the sociology department of the University of California at Berkeley, in collaboration with Professor Michael Hout, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the UC Berkeley Survey Research Center, have taken a scientific look at the numbers from our recent election. They looked only at Florida numbers for this study; here are some of the highlights:
"Irregularities associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded 130,000 excess votes or more to President George W. Bush in Florida."
Counties with electronic voting machines were significantly more likely to show increases in support for Bush between 2000 and 2004. "This effect cannot be explained by differences between counties in income, number of voters, changes in voter turnout, or size of Hispanic/Latino population."
In Broward County, Bush appears to have received approximately 72,000 excess votes.
Could it be just a computer glitch, an accident? "We can be 99.9 percent sure that these effects are not attributable to chance," the researchers report.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @7:21 PM
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