The Mystery Pollster, an excellent resource for those interested in the ins-and-outs of polling, has two excellent pieces up in the past two days.
The first one is an extensive analysis of the "Freeman Paper" that has become mildly famous on the Internet. He does a good job of highlighting some serious flaws in his conclusions: http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2004/11/the_freeman_pap.html In particular, the Mystery Pollster concludes that it is very reasonable to conclude that The second post links to an excellent interview with Walter Mitofsky, who is considered the "father of exit polling", and who ran this year's exit polls. In particular, Mitofsky says that he has studied the exit poll data on a precinct-by-precinct level, and found no evidence of voting fraud connected to touch-screen voting machines without a paper trail.* http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2004/11/exit_polls_brea.html The interview itself is here: http://mayflowerhill.blogspot.com/2004/11/mayflower-hill-exclusive- warren.html JDG * - But I strongly support adding a paper trail post haste anyways. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
