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Lots of very strong claims made without any evidence. The fact that voting machines are insecure does not mean that fraud occurred. > When an exit poll or two
by GabrielF00 10y ago
Lots of very strong claims made without any evidence.
The fact that voting machines are insecure does not mean that fraud occurred.
> When an exit poll or two is outside the margin of error, it denotes failure in the polling; when eight defy it — egregiously so — that indicates systemic electoral fraud.
Or it indicates systemic problems in the methodology used to conduct exit polls, such as incorrect assumptions in sampling. The author suggests that the fact that exit polls of the Republican primaries were accurate means that exit polls of the Democratic primaries must also have been accurate. Given that Republican and Democratic voters tend to have very different demographics, I would question that assumption.
The author is holding up exit polling as a gold standard, but it took me about about five seconds of googling to find a long history of bad exit polls. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/06/outraged-wisconsin-exit-polls-so-wrong http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/06/outrage...
- DamienSF 10y agoVoting machines are black boxes which by nature are incompatible with one fundamental principle of democracy: transparency. This is a major issue because even if the fraud is unproven, voters can legitimately be concerned about the accuracy of how votes are being counted. That said, some statistical analysis research have shown a strong probability of votes being flipped by electronic machines in past elections. Here is the original research paper: http://madisonvoices.com/pdffiles/2008_2012_ElectionsResultsAnomaliesAndAnalysis_V1.5.pdf http://madisonvoices.com/pdffiles/2008_2012_ElectionsResults...