The Election Defense Alliance is hiring Zogby to do independent exit polls in November. Polls that can't be changed when the election turns out to be the opposite from the exit polls like the 2004 elections. This is being organized by Jonathan Simon and his associates. Jonathan is the statistician who captured images of the 2004 exit polls which showed Kerry won. The polls were changed after Bush won. We need independent exit polls this election more than to verify election results. We urgently need your help to fund this very expensive effort. Please give as generously as you can because our democracy depends on safeguarding our elections.
Activists in states like Maryland, which have statewide paperless touchscreen voting machines, have been desperately seeking a way to validate the true intent of voters. Our only hope is a national exit poll that could capture the will of voters.
The national media consortium's exit poll in 2004 was a disaster. The outcome appeared only briefly on TV screens nationwide, clearly indicating a win for John Kerry. In those moments before the original data disappeared, Jonathan Simon was able to capture the results in 46 states. Then the polls mysteriously from view and, in its place, poll results that had been "adjusted" appeared, confirming the "official" Bush win outcome.
The analysis that Steven Freeman did, based on Jonathan's data, produced the challenge to the official election results that we have come to know so well.
Now Jonathan Simon, Steve Freeman, and many other computer experts and statisticians are determined to raise enough money to have an independent national poll in place for the coming elections on November 7. This effort is being coordinated through the Election Defense Alliance.
Mandatory- the second change brought because of VultureTX
Excuse me. Just how many Republicans said they were UNWILLING to answer exit polls? And at the time I remember some critism to them polling a disproportionate amount of urban minority women . Who of course tend to vote Democratic.
Given the hostility of the electorate how is Zogby going to be any different in getting a response from RURAL america?
Remeber if polls were really so accurate we would not have to count the ballots.
In any close race where the difference is within the margin of error, you can't claim Jack if the exit polls don't match the official results. As was the case with the 2004 election.
/But I am pretty sure what you really want is something to wave around afterwards for propaganda.
// DEMs win control of Congress. Given!
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Vulture (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 150 comments)
on Sunday, October 8, 2006 at 10:51:06 PM
I believe all that's needed is a count of those who voted Democrat. Wouldn't that work? We sure need something to assure that another election is not stolen.
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Christie (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 143 comments)
on Monday, October 9, 2006 at 6:42:00 PM
The Naderites gave it to Bush in 2000, and that was the end. Unless we can get overwhelming signatures on petitions amending state constitutions to require paper ballots and to make the initial counts of those ballots in the precincts, then the game will be truely over. Oh, yeah, we will have to get well over 50% of those voter's signatures, because we will have to vote for the amendments on the machines. And we know what the machines will do .... "Open the Pod Bay door, Hal".
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GitarChris (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 124 comments)
on Monday, October 9, 2006 at 8:44:59 PM
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