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I received this today to post on Whoseflorida.com for Kathy Dopp, who is directing the statistical study of the election, and wanted to post it to TallyIMCPlease contact her directly if you can help.
Statistical Election Study: Today's NY Times article
Hello Everyone,
Thank you for the overwhelming response to http://USTogether.org/Florida_Election.htm
I apologize for anyone I've offended in the last week from crabbiness. I've tried my best to use the responses to my work to collect a list of volunteer mathematicians and programmers and others in order to organize a project to systematically mathematically study the 2004 election to pinpoint counties/precincts where vote counting errors may have occurred, and to provide evidence that can be used in court for persons investigating this election. It will be a two year project and we will need your help.
Right now, I simply need you to let people know about the NY Times article today called
"Vote Fraud Theories, Spread by Blogs, Are Quickly Buried"
Vote Fraud Theories, Spread by Blogs, Are Quickly Buried
By TOM ZELLER Jr.
Some Web logs were swift to provide dark theories about the presidential election, but others were just as quick to debunk them.
Are we going to let them "Quickly Bury" the truth?
I think Not.
Please counter the one incorrect statement in it about our statistical study, and thank the author Tom Zeller for mentioning me so often in it. That is really good for us.
The one small mis-statement was:
"...the suggestion of a link between certain types of voting machines and the vote split in Florida has, at least for now, little concrete support.'
Tom based his statement here on the online analyses of social scientists from Princeton and Cornell that were difficult to understand.
Please point people to this thorough rebuttal of the criticisms of our group's mathematical study of Florida's voting patterns:
http://ustogether.org/election04/dopp/dopp_response.html
so that the the truth stays out there.
(How Folks in Florida can Help)
It looks like we will be soon needing some local volunteers in Florida to obtain the district election results for the Presidential and US Senate and US Congressional races for us and possibly mail it (on electronic media) or input put it into a spreadsheet (all the raw data) and send it to us for every precinct/county in FL, but especially the mid-sized ones in our study. We will also need the same by precinct election results for OH which may also have to be obtained by hand there.
I need to know precinct level results by ballot type (early, absentee, precinct, and provisional) plus what type of counting method was used for each type of ballot.
I will email you again re. that. later in case you can help.
We are making progress in database design and obtaining a business structure (nonprofit business) to begin this operation and will let you know how you can help.
Again, thank you for the overwhelming response. It is so good to know that there are an army of people who want to make sure that the 2004 election was counted correctly and put in place a system for letting candidates mathematically analyze the patterns to see where votes may have been miscounted. Our group has much work to do to set up a database on a server, collect and input all the data, write programs to access it and display it, develop our methods, test our methods against recounts, etc. I am convinced our methods will work.
Please ask people to read this response to our detractors:
http://ustogether.org/election04/dopp/dopp_response.html
-- Kathy Dopp US Count Votes http://USTogether.org/Florida_Election.htm |
