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BethanyQuartz

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2. Hopefully

Reply to Catherina (Original post)

Fri Apr 26, 2013, 10:30 PM

Apr 2013

Hopefully this audit (which we sure could have used in 2000 and 2004 in the USA!) will put this to rest now and the opposition can go back to sucking on their diamond studded pacifiers. They still mostly get their way in Venezuela as it is.

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Venezuelan Audit Can’t Find Any Different Result in Presidential Election, Statistical Analysis Show [View all] Catherina Apr 2013 OP

“The U.S. government must know this, too,” bananas Apr 2013 #1

Hopefully BethanyQuartz Apr 2013 #2

53% is usually considered to be a pretty good sample size. bemildred Apr 2013 #3

10% would be enough if observers were at every station. joshcryer Apr 2013 #5

Better to randomize it (independently), you don't want to be able to predict the audited stations. bemildred Apr 2013 #6

exactly naaman fletcher Apr 2013 #7

Know what kind of audit we have here? NO AUDIT AT ALL in half the states and... Peace Patriot Apr 2013 #4