PB Post: Study: Florida vote not perfect

[ryban]

Florida residents relieved that the presidential election passed without a major meltdown may need to think twice, according to statistics researchers from the University of California at Berkeley.

A team from the school's Survey Research Center analyzed Florida returns and found "anomalies" in several heavily Democratic counties using touch-screen voting machines where President Bush received more votes than their statistical model predicted.

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Applying statistical models to the Florida returns, they found Bush may have received from 130,000 to 260,000 more votes than their models predicted he should have, based on demographic information and past voting history.

The surprising Bush tally was most notable in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, longtime Democratic bastions that also used touch-screen voting machines for the first time in a national election.

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/epaper/2004/11/19/a6a_evote_1119.html

[Brundle_Fly]

1. BING BING

kick!

[Leilani]

2. The article does not back the theory that the outcome would change

The study found that the questionable votes in Florida would not have changed the outcome.

And the study found no anomalies in Ohio.

Therefore, according to this story, the Berkeley group found problems, but nothing that would change the results of the election.

Seems to me, this shoots down the entire theory of a Kerry win.

[Brundle_Fly]

3. I am just happy a news organization

wrote something about it down.

the more that do the more will get discovered.

[Moderator]

4. Duplicate topic

Please add this to the already open thread on the Berkley study.

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