Black box voting

[ciphergoth]

SoCalDem has done a statistical analysis...on several swing states, and EVERY STATE that has Electronic Voting but no paper trails has an unexplained advantage for Bush of around +5% when comparing exit polls to actual results. In EVERY STATE that has paper audit trails on their E-Voting, the exit poll results match the actual results reported within the margin of error.

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[zotz]

Mandelson's been known to talk about a 'get your champagne out' call from the late great Vincent Hannah on election night 1992, based on the latter's knowledge of the exit polling.

Yes, presumably based on the polls tweaked to match the prospective ones, if that essay's correct.

The site's an essay bank, isn't it?

Yes, but it matches what I remember. This article (google cache) states that the error in the BBC '92 exit poll was 2%, which is well within the stated margin of error. The problem wasn't the raw result.