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Help stop irregularities in voting.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-MAY-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Help stop irregularities in voting.(Commentary)

Article Excerpt
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Carol McBrian For The Register-Guard

On March 31, a group of university statisticians led by Josh Mitteldorf of Temple University issued a troubling report.

They noted that while President Bush officially won by 2.5 percent of the popular vote, the exit polls showed John Kerry winning by 3 percent. According to the statisticians, the chances of a discrepancy this large are close to 1 in a million.

Exit polls have proved to be exceptionally accurate in the U.S., in Ukraine, in Latin America and elsewhere. The 2004 discrepancy, like that of the invalid Ukraine election, was five times the usual discrepancy, a significant difference. The statisticians' report concludes that this discrepancy...



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