From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Mark"  wrote in message
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> "Geo"  wrote in message
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>> You don't have to buy the election anymore, all you have to do is have
>> the
>> voting machines tested then pay someone to forget to erase the test data
>> before the election.
>
> I'm surprised you buy into those conspiracy theories Geo.  referring to Diebold -- the evil conservative corporation acting in
> concert with Halliburton to take over the country and steal the world's
> oil while clubbing baby harp seals to death that get the way of the strip
> mining that will really go on in Alaska when they're not spilling crude
> and spewing wasted natural gas by-products into the ozone to fry us all>
>
>

One of our local stations in Detroit picked the mayoral race winner early
last night around 9:30 pm.

Next election they may use a new polling organization as the announced
'winner'  lost.

Their competitors are  now leading off their newscasts with a 'we may have
been late but we did pick the correct winner'   

It seems that the major polling organizations were still using exit and
call polling - a leftover from the punch card days and it appears not that
reliable. One small polling group ( led by a  retired newspaperman and part
time college teacher ) here got the results correct as they used key
precinct totals that are now available with the paper ballot machines.

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