In Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania, 1+1 doesn't equal 2

Prof. says vote numbers don't add up

By Rob Zaleski,
December 9, 2004

Surely there must be some logical explanation.

That's the first thing Steven Freeman thought the night of Nov. 2, after exit polls showing that John Kerry would win most of the key battleground states turned out to be wrong, and George W. Bush ended up being re-elected by nearly 3.5 million votes...

Either the exit polls were off or the count was off, says Freeman, who has a Ph.D. in organizational studies from MIT.

"And beyond that, every deviation was in the same direction" - showing more support for Kerry than the actual vote - "so I thought that ought to be explained as well. And the more I looked into it, the more interesting it was."...

...Freeman concluded in a paper on Nov. 10 - a paper, by the way, he has revised twice since - that the odds of exit polls in the critical states of Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania all being so far off were roughly 662,000 to 1...

One stands a better chance of dying in a plane crash.

"Citing the disturbing fact that official results diverged sharply from a range of surveys of voters a polling places, Republican Senator Richard G. Lugar said, "A concerted and forceful program of election-day fraud and abuse was enacted with either the leadership or cooperation of governmental authorities." - Greg Palast

But the good Senator from Indiana wasn't talking about US elections, he was talking about elections in Ukraine, whose Supreme Court has since ruled the elections invalid and ordered new elections.