Reply #13: Sorry, Melissa [View All]

[Febble]

Wasn't clear. My beef is with the paper, not your post. If they are going to claim that Mitofsky or myself claimed something, then they need to provide a source.

I am unaware of any source for their claim that either Mitofsky or myself considered that the lack of linear correlation between my proposed measure of the discrepancy and Bush's share of the vote supports either rBr or fraud. All I have done is to say that it does not support the USCV inference of "Bush Strongholds have more Vote-count corruption".

To be scrupulously fair, the longer I thought about it, the more I began to consider that if large numbers of votes were transferred from Kerry to Bush in randomly selected precincts, then that ought to be manifest as a linear correlation - although possibly not if the fraud was concentrated in Kerry strongholds.

But I have certainly never claimed the finding refuted fraud, and nor, to my knowledge, has Mitofsky.