Why Dem Primary Anomalies Must Be Thoroughly Investigated Before Choosing a Nominee

[Time for change]

89. If exit polls are as bad as you say, then

why do the network news stations routinely use them to assist in calling elections before the vote is all in? Are you aware that Maryland was called for Clinton with 0.0% of the vote in this year?

Yes, there is not much "accountability", so it would be possible for an exit poll worker to falsify an exit poll. But there would be little or no motive for doing so, so why would anyone do that. The most they could gain from it would be that it could lead to an audit, and if the exit poll was falsified, then the audit shouldn't show anything in particular.

On the other hand, there is tremendous motive for voting machines to be rigged to achieve a certain outcome, and don't tell me that we have any good methods for preventing that from happening. They are owned by right wing individuals with ties to the Republican Party, and anyone who knows anything about them knows that they can't be trusted.

And what do you have against auditing with hand counts, as a check on the validity of the elections? I'm not recommending that the elections be overturned on the basis of the exit polls. I'm only asking that they be audited.

Are you aware of the Chicago audit in Illinois, where a citizens group observed hand counts that differed substantially from the machine counts, and then observed the auditors changing their own hand count to match the machine count? I noted it in the OP, which I'm guessing you didn't read.

Here's a poll that I posted a few days ago, asking for an interpretation of that event. Why don't you tell me how you'd interpret it and take the poll yourself?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511876642