Reply #14: A few facts. You make the call. [View All]

[euler]

This a complete list of the National Research Commission on Elections:

R. Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology
Henry Brady, University of California, Berkeley
Guy-Uriel Charles, University of Minnesota
James Fishkin, Stanford University
Benjamin Highton, University of Califoria, Davis
Jane Junn, Rutgers University
Alexander Keyssar, Harvard University (chair)
J. Morgan Kousser, California Institute of Technology
Martha Kropf, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Margaret Levi, University of Washington
Jeff Manza, Northwestern University
Walter R. Mebane, Jr., Cornell University
James Morone, Brown University
Richard Pildes, New York University
Nelson W. Polsby, University of California, Berkeley
Samuel Popkin, University of California, San Diego
Douglas Rivers, Stanford University
Michael Traugott, University of Michigan
Janelle Wong, University of Southern California

I've Googled a lot of these names. Any honest person would be hard pressed to call them biased. But, you decide.

This commission publshed many reports on the 2004 Presidential election. You can view then here: http://election04.ssrc.org/data/

Among them are:

--Obstacles to a Democratic Election: Reports of Electoral Problems in Key U.S. States during the 2004 Election

--Election Protection Election Day Incidence

--Testimonies from the New Faith Baptist Church Public Hearing, Columbus, Ohio

--Free Press: The Franklin County Courthouse Public Hearing, Columbus, Ohio

--Effect of Voting-Machine Allocations on the 2004 Election: Franklin County, Ohio

--Voter Protection Center

--Richard Hayes Phillips's Testimony (He argues that statistically, Kerry should have received more votes than he was credited in nine Ohio counties.)

--Sherole Eaton's Testimony )the Hocking County Ohio Deputy Director of Elections, describes the work performed on the tabulator computer and recommendations of a Triad Systems employee )


Also from Mark Blumenthal (Mystery Pollster):

the report is a uniquely fair, rational and exhaustive review of the available evidence on all the major vote count controversies

He describes himself as a liberal.

You make the call.