On the other hand, if an election rigger wanted Clinton to stay in the Democratic contest, he or she might target the areas where the black and student vote would be the highest, knowing he or she could skim as much as ten percent, maybe higher, off of Obama's totals, without anyone becoming suspicious. So a rigger might therefore target the larger cities of Ohio. We surveyed one precinct, or multi-precinct site, in each of the cities of Columbus, Cincinnati, and Cleveland. One of those cities, Columbus, showed the anomaly of Obama losing a high percentage of votes from what the exit poll indicated. The other two cities' precincts showed less than a 5 point discrepancy, but these are optical scan counties. The average of the three OS counties' (also including Auglaize) totals show Obama losing only two percentage points. But given the choice to rig a touch screen county, with paper trails almost totally worthless for a recount, or an Optical Scan county, with actual voter ballots that can be recounted, which would the conscientious and prudent rigger choose?
Of course the point is moot, given that ordinary citizens cannot call for a spot recount simply based on a citizen conducted exit poll, even if they pay for it. And an exit poll, especially one that shows discrepancies in percentages and not in total numbers of votes, is not enough evidence on which to base a lawsuit.
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