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on Friday April 24 2015, @11:50PM
from the never-trusted-those-things-anyways dept.
from the never-trusted-those-things-anyways dept.
From the Wichita Eagle:
A Wichita State University mathematician sued the top Kansas election official Wednesday, seeking paper tapes from electronic voting machines in an effort to explain statistical anomalies favoring Republicans in counts coming from large precincts across the country.
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(Score: 1, Troll) by wisnoskij on Saturday April 25 2015, @06:37PM
I bet 1-5% don't even remember who voted (a lot of them make up their minds with the ballot in front of them), and a further 1% would lie who they voted for for some reason, and there is probably another 1% who mistakenly pressed the wrong button and have no idea they voted for the wrong candidate. I really doubt that you would ever get the same recount, and if the race was close this amount of random drift would be very significant compared to any fraud trying to tweak the votes a percentage or two in someones favor.