-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Politech] Some Dems allege that exit polls wrong, voting machines rigged Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:36:44 -0800 (PST) From: David Wagner <daw@private> To: declan@private I think these claims of fraud have to be viewed with some skepticism. The article claims "Evidence Mounts that the Vote Was Hacked", but the author does not present any real evidence, or a theory of how election fraud was alleged to occur. He does present some interesting statistical patterns and anomalies -- but there might be many explanations for these patterns. I think it is too early to infer anything specific from this data. For instance, it would be premature to blame this on inaccuracies (or even fraud) in touchscreen voting machines. Before drawing too many conclusions, I encourage readers to see the analysis and commentary on this site: http://www.evoting-experts.com/ See, e.g., these posts: http://www.evoting-experts.com/index.php?p=65 http://www.evoting-experts.com/index.php?p=61 http://www.evoting-experts.com/index.php?p=59 I've said before, and I'll say it again, that DRE e-voting machines have serious vulnerabilities to fraud. However, it is one thing to say that there are potential vulnerabilities, and another entirely to say that those vulnerabilities were exploited this election. At present, we have no evidence for the latter. -- David _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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