[Peace-discuss] must see - stolen elections

[Phil Stinard]

I wouldn't read much into the article "Staged Election: Several Republicans 
Win by Exact Same Amount of Votes."  It doesn't cite sources for the data, 
and even if the data are correct, the numbers could be a statistical 
coincidence, despite the author's protests to the contrary.  If you look for 
numerical patterns in a large data set, you will eventually find what you're 
looking for, but that alone doesn't prove significance, or cause and effect.

On August 15, Venezuela conducted one of the most fair and transparent 
elections in history using electronic voting machines that print a paper 
receipt.  Chavez won by a landslide, and the Venezuelan opposition pointed 
out that the numbers of votes against Chavez were sometimes identical on 
different machines at the same voting location, leading the opposition to 
claim that the machines had voting limits preprogrammed inside them.  
Auditing of the machines and statistical analyses proved these accusations 
to be false, and the Carter Center and the OAS certified the election.

I'm not saying that the voting machines used in the November 2 US election 
were not programmed to commit fraud.  I'm saying that the article doesn't 
prove this, and with proper auditing and paper receipts, it's possible to 
conduct a fair and honest election using electronic voting machines.

--Phil

>Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 08:09:32 -0600
>From: "Lisa Chason" <chason at shout.net>
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] must see - stolen elections
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>sorry for the multiple postings but I want to make sure you see this
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>Staged Election: Several Republicans Win by Exact Same Amount of Votes
>http://prisonplanet.com/articles/november2004/031104sameamount.htm