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In reply to the discussion: Official Vote Tally on Ohio's Pot Issue Deemed "Statistically Impossible" [View all]kristopher
(29,798 posts)50. That sounds like an invitation to manipulate by minority voters.
If you know your position is a minority one, what better way to have your way than to obstruct passage by creating the appearance of cheating?
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Official Vote Tally on Ohio's Pot Issue Deemed "Statistically Impossible" [View all]
HomerRamone
Nov 2015
OP
That is a typical sample size and it had a margin of error of less than 5%. So it makes no sense
pnwmom
Nov 2015
#60
While I'm fine with the way it turned out, I welcome any investigation into Ohio voting.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Nov 2015
#5
Sounds great! Better, come up with a system not relying on the cheaters' cooperation, like a site
GoneFishin
Nov 2015
#25
People, including those here, are SO eager to discredit poll after poll year after year
HomerRamone
Nov 2015
#9
that second to last paragraph explains it all. They should really save those tricks for bigger
yurbud
Nov 2015
#26
So it's true in Ohio, but not in Kentucky? Polls do, errrr, do not, em, ...lie, except????
Ford_Prefect
Nov 2015
#31