Reply #15: Going from the ESI report [View All]

[Febble]

the caption to the bar graph (wrongly labelled) says:

"The gray bar represents total possible response rate, from all exit poll non-respondents voting for Bush and all exit poll non-respondents voting for Kerry."

By "non-respondents" I assume they mean non-completers - either refusers or "missed" voters (selected but not approached). It is not an adequate report (as yet, I gather a proper paper is undergoing peer-review) but my interpretation makes sense.

http://www.votewatch.us/Members/stevenhertzberg/report.2005-07-19.2452304843/report_contents_file/

It's probably worth asking them, but it surely must mean the former.

Look, yes, it must:

"ESI looked at the range of non-response rate possibilities
in the sampled precincts to see whether the reported vote in those precincts fell inside that range."

http://www.votewatch.us/Members/stevenhertzberg/report.2005-07-19.7420722886/report_contents_file/

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"non-response rate" is completers divided by completers, refusers and misses.