by DrDebugDU » Tue Sep 06, 2005 9:32 am
PROBABILITY TABLE: Exit Poll Margin of Error vs. Vote Deviation<br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x345177">www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x345177</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>For example, if the Bush National exit poll deviation was<br>3.50% in going from from 47.0% in the preliminary poll to<br>50.5% in the recorded vote, then the odds are 1 in 288<br>billion for this result to have occured by chance alone.<br><br>The 1.0% MOE stated by Edison/Mitofsky in the notes at the<br>bottom of the exit poll summary screen (WP/NEP) is used for<br>the calculation.<br><br>If the MOE was 1.50%, the odds are much higher that the<br>deviation could have been due to chance: 1 in 416,000.<br><br>We use the Normal Distribution Function, calculated over a<br>matrix of the two variables: Deviation and MoE (1.96*<br>standard deviation at the 95% confidence level). The standard<br>deviation = MoE/1.96 is entered in the Excel function.<br><br>The probability P is given by:<br>P = 1 - NORMDIST(Actual vote, Exit poll, MoE/1.96,TRUE)<br><br>P = 1 - NORMDIST(.505, .470, .01/1.96, true) = 1/288 billion.<br><!--EZCODE CODE START--><pre> Probability Matrix Deviation from preliminary exit poll to the final vote Exit Poll Margin of ErrorDev. 1.00% 1.50% 1.75% 2.00% 2.25% 2.50% 2.75% 3.00% 1 in1.00% 40 10 8 6 5 5 4 41.50% 609 40 22 14 10 8 7 62.00% 23k 223 80 40 25 17 13 102.50% 2.1mm 1.8k 391 140 68 40 27 203.00% 485mm 23k 2.6k 609 223 107 62 403.50% 288bn 416k 23k 3.3k 871 330 159 904.00% 450tr 11.5m 267k 23k 4k 1.1k 459 223</pre><!--EZCODE CODE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><br>What are the odds?<br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x377140">www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x377140</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>1. 42 of 50 states deviating to Bush from the exit polls?<br><br>1 in 1,718,869<br>=1-BINOMDIST(41,50,0.5,TRUE)<br><br><br>2. ALL 22 states in the Eastern time zone deviating to Bush from the exit polls?<br><br>1 in 4,194,304<br>=BINOMDIST(22,22,0.5,FALSE)<br><br><br>3. Bush going from 48-51% in the National exit poll to 51-48% in the vote?<br><br>1 in 696,717,814<br>=NORMDIST(48/99,51/99,0.01/1.96, TRUE)<br><br><br>4. 16 of 50 states deviating to Bush beyond the exit poll MoE, none to Kerry?<br><br>1 in 19,083,049,268,519<br>=1-BINOMDIST(15,50,0.025,TRUE)<br><br><br><br>5. 86 of 88 touchscreens flipping Kerry votes to Bush?<br>1.23689E-23 =BINOMDIST(86,88,0.5,FALSE)<br>2.84343E-25 =BINOMDIST(87,88,0.5,FALSE)<br>3.23117E-27 =BINOMDIST(88,88,0.5,FALSE)<br>..........<br>1.26565E-23<br><br>1 in 79,010,724,999,066,700,000,000<br><br><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><br>Our Evidence vs. Their Evidence<br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x366974">www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x366974</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>OUR EVIDENCE<br><br>We know Kerry led the pre-election state polls.<br>We know Kerry led the pre-election national polls.<br><br>We know Kerry led the post-election state exit polls, 51-48%.<br>We know Kerry led the post-election national exit poll, 51-48%<br><br>We know documented voting machine “glitches” favored Bush 99% of the time.<br><br>We know the media and E-M will not release detailed raw precinct data.<br>We know Blackwell refused to testify before Conyers.<br>We know Mitofsky refused to testify before Conyers.<br><br>We know that there were over 21 million new voters.<br>We know Kerry won the vast majority (57-62%) of new voters.<br><br>We know there were 3 million former Nader voters.<br>We kknow Kerry won Nader voters by 71%-21% over Bush.<br><br>We know Party ID averaged 39% Dem/35% Rep/26% Independent in the prior three elections.<br>We know Party ID was 38/35/27 for the first 13047 National Exit Poll respondents.<br>We know it was changed to 37/37/24 for the final 613 in the 13660 Final.<br><br>We know Kerry, like Gore, won the female vote 54/46% up until the final 660 respondents.<br>We know it was changed to 51% in the 13660 Final.<br><br>We know Bush 2000 voters represented an IMPOSSIBLE 43% of the 2004 electorate in the final 13660 Exit poll.<br>We know it was changed from 41% in the first 13047<br>We know that Bush had 50.456 mm votes in 2000.<br>We know that about 3.5% of them have since died.<br>We know, therefore, that the Bush percentage could not have been higher than 39.8% (48.69/122.26).<br>We know that with the 39.8/40.2% weighting, Kerry won by 52.4-46.7%, or SEVEN million votes.<br><br><br>We know the 2000 election was stolen - by Bush in Florida where 175,000 punch cards (70% of them Gore votes) were spoiled.<br>We know SCOTUS stopped the recount and voted 5-4 for Bush.<br><br>We know the 2002 election was stolen (ask Max Cleland).<br><br>We know that the National Exit Poll MoE is under 1%. <br>We know because we checked the NEP margin of error table.<br>We know because we did the simple MoE calculation.<br>We know that Kerry won the Natioanl Poll by over 3%, 51-48%.<br>We know the odds are astronomical that the deviation was triple the MoE.<br><br>We know that 42 of 50 states deviated from the exit polls to Bush. We know that includes ALL 22 states in the Eastern Time Zone.<br><br>We know that 16 states deviated beyond the exit poll MoE for Bush, and none did for Kerry.<br><br>We know that touch screen voting machines became widely used in 2004.<br><br>We know that Republicans fought against paper ballots for Diebold and ESS touch screens.<br><br>We know that ALL Diebold ATMs provide a paper receipt.<br><br>We know that the deviation trend from the exit polls to the vote was approaching ZERO until 2000, when there was a dramatic reversal.<br><br>We know that scores of newspapers which supported Bush in 2000 supported Kerry in 2004.<br><br>We know that Kerry won the Ohio Exit Poll, by at least 51-48%.<br><br>We know the media will not report in any of the above.<br><br><br>THEIR EVIDENCE:<br>Something we don't know.<br>The rBr hypothesis: Bush voters were reluctant to speak to exit pollsters.<br><br>But..<br>We know that many Republican voters deserted Bush for Kerry.<br>We know there were hardly any Gore Democrats who voted for Bush.<br><br>Ladies and Gentleman of the Jury:<br>Have you reached a verdict?<br><br> <p></p><i></i>