Reply #34: With all due respect, please read my paper

[Bruce ODell]

If you actually had, you would have encountered these words:

"...a closer look at the data cite in their report reveals that Kerry and Bush supporter exit poll response rates actually did not vary significantly by precinct partisanship . Systematic exit poll bias cannot be ruled out as an explanation of the 2004 Presidential exit poll discrepancy – nor can widespread vote count corruption . The case for fraud is still unproven, and I believe will never be able to be proven through exit poll analysis alone.

" This paper should not be misinterpreted as an argument against the likelihood of vote fraud. Quite the opposite; I believe US voting equipment and vote counting processes are severely vulnerable to systematic insider manipulation and that is a clear and present danger to our democracy . I strongly endorse the Working Paper’s call to implement Voter-Verifiable Paper Ballots and a secure audit protocol, and to compile and analyze a database of election results."

Perhaps it's old fashioned of me, but working as I do in an engineering profession, truth actually is more than just a peripheral concern.

When the question at hand is: "am I still a citizen of the American Republic, or am I just a serf of the American Empire", I for one strongly believe that getting the answer wrong - either way - is a Really Bad Thing. Don't you?

Has it occurred to you (as I also stated in my paper) that "It is possible to speculate that if a hypothetical group or groups actually have the power to covertly shift votes on a national scale sufficient to change the election outcome, they doubtless would be extremely careful to try to avoid detection – especially, one would think, by angry statisticians."

I'm so concerned that the election may have been stolen, I'm actually trying to find the evidence. If you've found the evidence, show me. If you haven't, either join me in analyzing the data - if you can - or stop questioning my integrity, simply for insisting on analyzing it properly.