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Land Shark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-10-05 02:30 PM
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Odds of ballot fraud makes MSM
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for Republicans, of course, and a weak example, but perhaps someone can answer this calculation since I can't reach my own statisticians right now:

The Seattle times, concerning recently discovered 94 uncounted ballots in WA gubernatorial race still subject of election contest:

"The possibility of fraud comes not from a specific allegation but from a so far unexplained statistic:

Out of 91 missed ballots whose precincts were known last week, 61 were cast in precincts Rossi won in November.

Given that Gregoire won King County by a 58-40 split and led the final results in about 70 percent of all the county's 2,616 precincts, Republicans find it suspicious that so many of the uncounted ballots came from Rossi strongholds.

"Can it be random error?" Vander Stoep asked. "What are the odds of that being chance?" "

Q: And the odds of this ARE..... ______________________

( I would use this answer to respond to MSM and suggest some more interesting probabilities they should put on the front page)

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