Berkeley study scrutinizes Florida tally for Bush

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Berkeley study scrutinizes Florida tally for Bush

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/19/VOTERFRAUD.TMP

Unexplained boost linked to e-voting; some not so sure

- Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, November 19, 2004

Researchers at UC Berkeley released a statistical analysis Thursday
that shows, they say, that President Bush may have received at least
130,000 extra and unexplained votes in Florida counties that used
electronic voting machines.

A professor and three graduate students from the university's Survey
Research Center conducted the study and said they have been able "to
explain away all other factors" that might have increased Bush's
support.

But some political scientists dismissed the analysis, pointing out
that researchers did not and probably could not account for massive
Republican get-out-the-vote efforts, differences in money spent or
differences in amount of advertising by candidates, as well as other
political intricacies.

"(E-voting) is not the only factor left because the model is so
incomplete. How do you control for the fact that churches and gun
groups were out there pumping out people; how would you measure that?"
asked Bruce Cain, a political science professor and director of UC
Berkeley's Institute of Governmental studies.

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1. Duplicate and

you posted this same thing and it was locked as a duplicate yesterday.
LBN is organized by topic.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1001078

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2. Please post this infromation to the older thread

Thanks