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The Unanswered
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http://truthisall.net/EXIT_POLL_ANALYSIS/exit_poll_analysis.html
Naysayer Hobson’s
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The Clincher
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x379573
The Game
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x390193
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2775205
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x460141
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2004
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(Matched
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Unadjusted
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/elections/common/exitpolls.html
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http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/US/H/00/epolls.0.html
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http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls.main/
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http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/37588.htm
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Forecasts
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International
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Clear Politics 2008
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2004
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http://election.dos.state.fl.us/voterreg/pdf/2004/2004pppParty.pdf
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http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/voting/004986.html
http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/p20-556.pdf
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http://www.RichardCharnin.com/CountyVoteDatabase.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/president.htm
Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS)
https://voteprotect.org/index.php?display=EIRMapNation&tab=ALL
Florida 2004 Registration
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/voterreg/pdf/2004/2004pppParty.pdf
2004 Presidential Election – Compendium
of Attempts to Dismiss “Vote Fraud”
http://electionmathematics.org/ucvAnalysis/US/IncorrectElectionDataAnalysis-06.pdf
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Baiman: summary of the USCV/E-M and Liddle debate
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x371175
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x372464
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by
Frederick Mosteller
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=8496542
Voting
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THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Department of Computer
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http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=8496542
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http://www.vote.caltech.edu/media/documents/VotingMachines3.pdf
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Internet
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Was
the 2004 Election Stolen? June 1, 2006
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen/print
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x431741
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2661019
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x431251
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1429463
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x431596
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2661019
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x431251
Michael
Keefer
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KEE411A.html
The
Strange Death of American Democracy: Endgame in Ohio
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KEE501A.html
Thom
Hartmann
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
Jim Lampley
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-lampley/the-biggest-story-of-our-_b_576.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-lampley/revisiting-the-biggest-st_b_1619.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-lampley/the-emerging-democratic-m_b_1038.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-lampley/to-byron-york-and-other-o_b_728.html
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=369024
Robert C. Koehler
The silent scream of numbers
Tribune Media
Services
http://commonwonders.com/archives/col290.htm
Dan
Rather
Programmer
Clint Curtis's affidavit – June 3, 2006
http://www.bradblog.com/Docs/ClintCurtis/CC_Affidavit_120604.pdf
Scoop
2006 Midterms
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00377.htm
Greg
Palast…Uncounted Votes
http://myvoices.blogs.com/blog/2006/06/greg_palast_abr.html
Ohio records destroyed in 56 of 88 countieshttp://www.alternet.org/story/58328/
Exit polls: the latest Mystery Pollster
blog - and my comments.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x178839
Exit poll
response optimization model: bush needed 55.2% of refusers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x374958
What is the
exit poll response optimizer telling us about rbr?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=375270
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x375366
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x374482#375015
Paul Lehto (Landshark)
My take on the TIA probability of so many errors favoring
Bush threads
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x388864
Time
for change
A non-statistician's view of the E-M exit poll controversy
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00165.htm
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The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy
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Ballot Recount » Ohio County Reports » Cobb-LaMarche 2004
Kropko, M.R. (January 24, 2007), "Election
Staff Convicted in Recount Rig
Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/24/AR2007012401441.html
John
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Final
Tallies Minus Exit Polls = A Statistical Mystery!
http://www.math.temple.edu/%7Epaulos/exit.html
Dr. Robert Fitrakis
Editor
of the Columbus Free Press
www.fitrakis.org
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_bob_fitr_071214_ohio_secretary_of_st.htm
Brad
Friedman
Greg
Palast, An Election Spoiled Rotten
No
Paper Trail Left Behind: The Theft of the 2004 Presidential Election
by Dennis Loo, Ph.D
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Project%20Censored/Theft_2004_Pres_Election.html
Wayne
Madsen
Grand
Theft Election, November 5, 2004
onlinejournal.com/evoting/110504Madsen/110504madsen.html
Ruy
Texeira
http://www.emergingdemocraticmajorityweblog.com/donkeyrising
http://www.votefraud.org/election2000_scam.htm
http://www.electionfraud2004.org/presentation/index.html
2006 Midterms- Landslide Denied
Jonathan
Simon, JD, and Bruce O’Dell: Election Defense Alliance
http://electiondefensealliance.org/landslide_denied_exit_polls_vs_vote_count_2006
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Corporate Media
New
Woes Surface in Use of Estimates
By Richard Morin, Washington
Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 4, 2004; Page A29
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23580-2004Nov3.html
Latest
Conspiracy Theory -- Kerry Won -- Hits the Ether
By Manuel Roig-Franzia and
Dan Keating
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, November 11, 2004; Page A02
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41106-2004Nov10.html
Ohio provisional ballot ruling reversed
USA Today, October 23, 2004
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/2004-10-23-ohio-ballots_x.htm
NY
Times 2004 voter registration
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/26/politics/campaign/26vote.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Reid, Chip (October 13, 2004), "Voter
suppression charges on the rise” MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6242175/
Ross, Brian (Oct. 27, 2004), Touch-Screen Trouble
ABC News, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2004/story?id=203866&page=1
2008 NY Primary – zero votes for Obama
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/nyregion/16vote.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Moss, Michael (September 29, 2004),
"Hurdles Remain for American Voters Who Live
Overseas”
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/29/politics/campaign/29military.html
Morin, Richard (November 21, 2004), "Surveying
the Damage
Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64906-2004Nov20.html
Rutenberg, Jim (November 5, 2004),
"Report Says Problems Led to Skewed Surveying Data
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/politics/campaign/05poll.html
Report suggests changes in exit poll methodology
CNN, January 19, 2005, http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/19/exit.polls/index.html
New York Times
“Electorate Expands but
Remains Sharply Divided, Surveys Show” http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/03/politics/campaign/03voices.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1099544400&en=f0708ceb11441e93&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Tom
Zeller Jr., The New York Times
Vote
Fraud Theories, Spread by Blogs, Are Quickly Buried
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/12/politics/12theory.html
November
12, 2004
Steve
Rosenthal, Washington Post
Okay,
We Lost Ohio. The Question Is, Why?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34157-2004Dec3.html
Dead
Voters On Rolls, Other Glitches Found In 6 Key States, Geoff Dougherty, Chicago
Tribune, December 4, 2004
Analysis
of Alleged Fraud in Briefs Supporting Crawford Respondents
December
5, 2004
William
Raspberry, Washington Post
Comments
on problems with the 2004 election
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61930-2005Jan9.html
November
11, 2004
Mark
Hertsgaard, Mother Jones, Recounting Ohio
http://www.motherjones.com/arts/books/2005/11/recounting_ohio.html
Ted, Barrett (January 6, 2005), Bush carries
Electoral College after delay
CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/06/electoral.vote/
Voting
Problems in Ohio Spur Call for Overhaul
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/24/national/24vote.html
Powell, Michael; Slevin, Peter (December 15, 2004),
Several Factors Contributed to 'Lost' Voters in Ohio
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64737-2004Dec14.html
Election
Data Services Inc
Tokaji, Daniel (February 8, 2005),
How Did Ohio's Voting Equipment Fare in 2004?
http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/comments/2005/050208.php
June
1, 2006
Farhad
Manjoo, Salon, Was the 2004 Election Stolen? No.
Critique
of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Rolling Stone Article
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/06/03/kennedy/index.html
Critique
of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Rolling Stone Article
http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2004/12/nbcs_shuster_on.htm
Blumenthal, Mark (November
15, 2004), Exit Polls: CalTech/MIT Report
http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2004/11/exit_polls_calt.html
Blumenthal, Mark (March 21, 2005), Hello Exit
Polls My Old Friend
http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2005/03/hello_exit_poll.html
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U.S. Government
Kucinich, Dennis (November 10, 2004),
A Note On The Presidential Election in Ohio
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1110-31.htm
Barbara, Boxer (January 6, 2005), Press Release
of Senator Boxer: Statement On Her Objection To The Certification Of Ohio’s
Electoral Votes
http://boxer.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=230450
Democratic National Committee: Institute of Voting
Rights (2005),
Democracy At Risk: The 2004 Election in Ohio
DNC Services Corporation,
http://www.democrats.org/pdfs/ohvrireport/section02.pdf
Keith, Tamara (November 17, 2004),
"Election day lines caused by voting machine
shortage and other factors”
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wosu/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=708327
Hearing
- 2004 election and the implementation of tthe Help America Vote Act
http://web.archive.org/web/20070407113643/http://cha.house.gov/hearings/Testimony.aspx?TID=676
Schneier, Bruce (November 10, 2004),
The Problem with Electronic Voting Machines
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2004/11/the_problem_wit.html
U.S.
Government Accountability Office.
September 2005
New
Study Shows 50 Million Voters Will Use Electronic Voting Systems, 32 Million
Still with Punch Cards in 2004
An
incumbent who can’t break 50 percent is in trouble, even if he’s ahead.
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8694
Undecided voters
break for the challenger.
http://unfutz.blogspot.com/2004/09/how-undecideds-break.html
Polling Data
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-battleground04.html
http://www.americanresearchgroup.com/
http://www.economist.com/media/pdf/YouGovN.pdf
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
Commentary and
Analysis
http://www.emergingdemocraticmajorityweblog.com/donkeyrising/
http://members1.chello.nl/~a.horlings/doc-polls.html
http://synapse.princeton.edu/~sam/pollcalc.html