I called C-SPAN
again this morning to ask if they would be airing the Freeman/Mitofsky debate and they said that the decision would not be made until Thursday night. Arghhhh!
Stephen Freeman, PhD, Visiting Scholar at University of Pennsylvania knows statistics, and he believes that the 2004 Election Polls indicate a very high probability of FRAUD in the Presidential race. U of Penn is a world-class university that would NOT host the debate with Freeman unless they believed that his case had some merit.
Please ASK C-SPAN TO COVER THE EXIT POLL DEBATE between Freeman & Warren Mitofsky THIS FRIDAY, October 14, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Suggest Events: Submit a public event that you think C-SPAN should cover to events@c-span.org
C-SPAN TELEPHONE NUMBERS
Main Number: (202) 737-3220
Please kick and recommend this thread - every event designed to uncover election fraud matters!------------------
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http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=54651 >
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ --
Two experts face-off in lively lectures and discussion about the utility of exit polls when compared to official counts, the potential for election fraud and the role of statistics in adjudicating critical issues of public importance. The University of Pennsylvania's departments of Center for Organizational Dynamics and Political Science and the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASAP) will host the debate.
Like most politically savvy Americans, Steve Freeman Ph.D., was glued to the television on election night, 2004. As he poured over exit polling data on CNN's website, he was fairly confident John Kerry was in the lead by a projected 5 million votes. But after all the votes were tallied, especially in the battleground states such as Ohio, the final tally swung well beyond the exit poll's margin of error to favor the President.
But unlike most Americans, Freeman holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Studies, and is a Visiting Scholar at Penn's Center for Organizational Dynamics where he teaches research methods, including polling. natural curiosity and academic diligence led him to research the issue in as much detail as possible, and the results appear in his forthcoming book on the matter titled, Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? to be published next month by Seven Stories Press. His thesis is that the official explanation for the difference between exit poll and official results ("Within Precinct Error" or WPE) -- that across the country Kerry voters participated at a higher rate -- is unsupported by the data. Instead, the WPE is statistically significantly correlated with election administration variables such as Republican gubernatorial control, state electoral importance and voting technology. These relationships are inconsistent with theses of polling bias, but consistent with theses of electoral fraud.In direct counterpoint, Warren J. Mitofsky, a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and President of Mitofsky International, which conducted the exit polling for the 2004 election on behalf of the National Election Pool, believes Freeman's view regarding election fraud is not statistically accurate. Mitofsky contends that such "conspiracy theorists" after the election mistakenly claimed the exit polls validated their claim. He believes there was no evidence in the exit polls to substantiate these claims. Instead, he contends that on election day the misinformation about the exit polls was spread by inexperienced people trying to make sense of complex statistical data. Mitofsky is currently writing a book on exit polling.
The two will square off in lectures and discussion on this very important issue on Friday, October 14, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the University of Pennsylvania Terrace Room, Logan Hall, 249 South 36th Street in Philadelphia.
Coverage of the debate is by invitation through Larry Starr, executive director, Center for Organizational Dynamics, 215-898-6967. Interviews with Dr. Freeman and Mr. Mitofsky may be requested in advance of the debate.
For more information, please visit <
http://www.organizationaldynamics@upenn.edu/center> (What's New) or <
http://www.amstatphilly.org>Contact: Dava Guerin, 215-914-2040, 215-262-0740 (cellular)
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