Concerned Locals Push For Presidential Election Fraud Probe
http://www.newsashland.com/articles/index.cfm?artOID=250849&cp=4296By Nick Diamantides
11:39 pm PT, Tuesday, Nov 23, 2004
Medford, Oregon "We believe exit polls in the Ukraine, but we don't
believe exit polls in the U.S.," said Tim Ream. "What is that telling
us?" Ream was one of the speakers at a meeting Monday night in the
Medford Public Library attended by about 75 people from Southern
Oregon who want the federal government as well as state governments to
investigate occurrences they say indicate widespread fraud in the 2004
U.S. presidential election.
"The exit poll is a very pure type of sampling; you're taking a random
number of people who just left the voting place," said Ream, who lives
in the Applegate Valley. "Historical data has shown time and time
again that exit polls are very accurate." Ream added that in Florida,
Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and a number of
other states, exit poll percentages contrasted sharply with election
results, and in all cases the disparity was in favor of President
George Bush.
Ream noted that several statistical studies were undertaken regarding
the issue. "One team out of Berkley concluded that the odds are 250
million to one that it could just be a coincidence that the exit polls
could be so wrong," he said adding that a growing number of Americans
suspect that Republicans stole the election and John Kerry was the
true winner.
Ashland resident, Mat Marr, who also spoke at the meeting, cited a
study undertaken by Professor Steven Freeman of the University of
Pennsylvania. "Freeman looked at past exit polls and found that they
are amazingly accurate," said Marr. "Then he studied the results on
the 2004 election and identified several states where the results
massively shifted toward Bush, contradicting the exit polls."