November 04, 2004

Exit Polls and Voting Machines

This caught my eye:

"If we go back in history to prior presidential elections, those exit polls were dead on," said Dennis Simon, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. "Something has changed to make them less dead on."

from an article in the Seattle Times.

But more interesting are these articles:

on voting machines casting the wrong vote for president

and this one that quotes industry analysts asking for a paper trail to verify the estimated 30 percent (!) of votes cast on electronic machines

and this one just connects the dots openly.

Here's a historical perspective on where some of the questions began.

So maybe the first place we Democrats and Anti-Bush millions (at least 55, could be another few mil who weren't counted) should start is with the voting booths. What goes in isn't always what comes out.

Posted by Vicki at November 4, 2004 06:03 AM