Re: protection of results

[Brian Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:51:59 +0000 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian Beesley
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  I wonder if the fact that electronic voting systems were in use in at
>  least some counties in at least some of the critical states in last
>  weeks US Presidential Election might be responsible for the
>  significant difference between the exit polls and the votes counted.

Maybe, but one has to allow for the tendency for people not to say that
have voted for a given candidate due to their desire not to be
identified as a supporter, this is given as one of the reasons why exit
polls are not very reliable. The UK general election of 1992 was a case
in point IIRC, or maybe it was the one before that (1988?).

I also doubt that there is any chance of the US election vote being
re-checked even if there is the information to do it.

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Brian Morrison

bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk

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