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> Media Black Out on Vote Fraud Allegations

15 November 2004, 09:10

Nobody has ever used exit polls to "verify elections", and exit polls have not been particularly accurate, either.

A poll is only as good as its sample. To yield an unbiased result, the poll must randomly sample all those who have cast votes. An election day exit poll obviously does not do this, since many people refuse to respond, and those who voted early and by absentee ballot are not included at all. Further, exit polling is not done at every polling place, and choice of polling places sampled may also introduce bias.

Interestingly, the election results corresponded very closely to those predicted by telephone polls taken immediately before the election. This suggests that the exit polls were indeed faulty, since it is patently ridiculous to suggest that a gigantic conspiracy rigged all the conventional polls and the voting as well.

It is also quite comical to observe that the Bushites were nervous early in the day, which they were, while at the same time suggesting that they rigged the election. If they had rigged it, why would they have cared what the exit polls said?