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Live Free Or Diebold Donating Member (21 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-04 04:09 AM
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42. Well, what are the numbers?
You can't compare 60% of the Suwanee precincts to all of the Suwanne precincts, for exactly the same reason that Katherine Blackwell couldn't compare 20% of Cuyahoga to all of Cuyahoga in my example. You're ignoring potentially important information by doing that.

If I counted the Presidential votes in Washington state, but left out, say, King County, the most liberal area by far, the percentages I'd get would be way off the reported totals, but I wouldn't say that was suspicious.

Here's the question I'll ask. Do the tallies for the counted Suwanne precincts agree (more or less) with the officially reported totals for those same precincts only? What are the numbers? If there's a 4% difference between those figures, then yes, I'll agree, this is big. Otherwise, no, it doesn't mean anything.
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