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By Janet Dagley Dagley
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'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	20.11.04
30 minutes That's how much of your time it will take to watch this video. That's less time than I spent waiting in line to vote on Nov. 2. In both cases, I consider it time well spent. I hope you do, too. If we don't spend some time paying attention to election accountability now, we might end up wasting our time in future elections. posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @5:17 PM	19.11.04
A stopped clock... ...is right twice a day, they say, and in much the same manner, one of the most common erroneous reports in our local media is about to correct itself. For years now, the Jersey Journal and Hoboken Reporter have said our building was full of condominiums. Early next year, they'll be right about that. Congratulations to all the reporters and editors involved on reality catching up to them. posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @8:27 PM	18.11.04
Once more, with feeling: it's overtime time again Congress has voted SIX TIMES during the Bush administration to protect the right to overtime pay, and each time that protection didn't survive the pressure from the White House and subsequent last-minute backroom deals. They're in session again this week, busy tossing out ethics rules and such, and they'll also be voting on 2005 appropriations bills, some of which include protection for overtime pay. Click here to urge your elected representatives to protect overtime pay protection. posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @5:02 PM	17.11.04
Ferries still afloat The news didn't look good this morning: it appeared that the NY Waterway Ferry would stop running by the end of the week. But this afternoon, I got this advisory from NY Waterway: Please be advised that NY Waterway has distributed a WARN letter to its employees and other parties, as is required under the provisions of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. NY Waterway is in discussions with the Hudson County Improvement Authority and other interested parties and is hopeful these discussions will result in continuation of commuter ferry service as a critical transportation link. NY Waterway does not anticipate any cessation or interruption of ferry service. posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @6:43 PM	16.11.04
New Jersey's new governor Congratulations to Gov. Richard Codey of New Jersey, the former State Senate President who takes over today in the wake of Jim McGreevey's resignation. This guy comes with a heckuva resume, but this is my favorite part: He has a hands-on governing style, demonstrated when he investigated the state-run Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital in 1987. Borrowing the name of a dead felon, Codey got hired as a night attendant and, after seeing patients being abused, he championed mental health reforms. If he didn't already have a career as a politician, this guy would make a great investigative journalist -- but then, there's not much call for that these days in a profession that seems to involve the journalist saying "uh-huh" to everything, and questioning nothing. posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @5:55 PM	15.11.04
Weekend reading, Part 2 (We're continuing to take the weekend off. Here's more recommended reading: Frank Rich tells us why the latest groupthink on "moral values" misses the point as usual. posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @10:04 AM	14.11.04