Reply #91: Thanks for the correction [View All]

[Febble]

I don't think I have so much as mentioned Bev Harris in a post.

And if you mean that I think that Bush either won a fair election, or that he won the electoral college vote, I don't think the first, and I think the jury is still out on the second.

My view is that the exit poll data suggest that the major factor in the discrepancy between the raw poll data and the count was due to an unrepresentative sample of respondents, and not to any factor that also contributed to an increase in Bush's vote share. I therefore think it is improbable that Kerry won by millions of votes, and probable that Bush had a popular vote win.

I don't think the playing field was anything like level, and I think the electoral process was both lax and corrupt. I think mandatory paper ballots and random manual audits would go a long way towards tighting the laxity and exposing corruption. However, much more is needed to level the playing field, in particular the issues of voter suppression.

Cheers

Lizzie