Statistical analysis to try to prove illegal votes swayed the race.(Wash.)

[Al-CIAda]

GOP Wins Election Challenge in Washington --The Republicans won an important victory Monday in their legal challenge to the election of Gov. Christine Gregoire when a judge allowed them to use a type of statistical analysis to try to prove illegal votes swayed the race. Republican Dino Rossi is trying to have the election results from November declared invalid.
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http://legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

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Wash Post article-
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/02/AR2005050200752.html

[Bill McBlueState]

1. the census

When it comes to the federal census, Republicans don't believe in statistical sampling. But I bet they changed their minds for this case!

[sam sarrha]

2. RepugNut Judges wont rewrite Constitution, Only the results of ELECTIONS !

:banghead:

[ibid]

3. The allowed presentation is not a complicated one - and I think unlikely

to win on appeal.

The method approved Monday would require that, as evidence of illegal votes are presented in court, a statistically proportional number of votes be subtracted from the official total, That means: if the judge finds evidence that 100 votes were illegally cast or counted in precinct "A", and if the Democratic candidate happened to receive 70 percent votes in that precinct and the GOP candidate received 30 percent, seven votes would be "deducted" from the official total for every three Republican votes.

Since Republicans have claimed that Democrats engaged in voter fraud (and expect to present evidence of fraud — mainly, lots of felons voting — in Democratic counties), clearly, the Democratic candidate-now-Governor Christine Gregoire, would be hurt the most.

Though both sides know that the state Supreme Court will ultimately rehear the case, having the GOP's statistical method as a baseline is bound to help the Republican candidate, Dino Rossi, unless Democrats can find an equal number of validated illegal votes in Republican-leaning precincts.