http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_180.shtmlAs shown in the above ariticle by Fitrakis and Waserman, the Ohio election results on the voting reform issues are tatistically impossible. (No, I'm not a statistician, but look at the data yourself: it doesn't take a PhD to understand).
The pre-election poll had a margin of error of +/- 2.5% with a 95% confidence level. This was not a sloppy poll, as the Columbus Dispatch has been doing a pre-election poll for a long time, with very accurate results. For Issue 1, they were dead on, but for the 4 voting reform issues, the results were so far off as to strain credibility. Whoever skewed those machines didn't have the slightest idea of what statistics could show.
Now, how to we get this issue advanced before the next election, which would be the primary. TIA did a lot of analysis ot the data before he left DU, but I don't know where he is now. Dr. Stephen Freeman worked on this. His 2004 paper was attacked by Mikorsky and others, who advanced some unbelievable theories. I think this is much "cleaner" in the sense that there is less to be attacked by the nay-sayers. BUT,HOW DO WE GET SOMETHING DONE ABOUT IT?
It took almost a year for the MSM to finally pay attention to the 2004 results, and it's "old news" by now. This isn't.
If anyone knows of organizations who are challenging this result, please let me know, so we can contribute to their efforsts.
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