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Maven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-11-08 03:02 PM
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30. OP misuses the word "flipped"
In '00/'04, the problem was that the machine data within certain municipalities reflected almost the exact opposite of the exit polls for the same municipality. Hence, there was appreciable evidence that votes were flipped from one candidate to another.

Here, that's not what's being alleged. All they're showing is that the ratios within each type of vote counting mirror one another, which is a strange pattern indeed but does not show the same type of flipping we saw in '00/'04. My point was that if you actually wanted to make this result come about you'd have to A) be psychic, since the hand-counted results were among the last to come in, and B) somehow manage to manipulate individual, unlinked tabulators in each municipality to get the numbers to match.
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