interesting reading on elections

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Subject: interesting reading on elections

From: "Margit Johansson" <margitjo@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 04:02:05 -0600

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"Chance, a popular Scientific-American-like journal for statistics, has
published a cover piece by Arlene Ash (BU) and John Lamperti
(Dartmouth), "Florida 2006: Can Statistics Tell Us Who Won
Congressional District-13?" The piece explores a range of statistical
arguments to show, with high probability, that the currently seated
candidate, Vern Buchanan, was not the person who won the election.

The piece can be accessed here:
http://www.amstat.org/PUBLICATIONS/chance/pdfs/199.featured.pdf"

Also, in Mark Crispin Miller's new book Loser Take All:Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008, a chapter by Michael Richardson and Brad Friedman, with additional research by John Gideon,"The Selling of the Touch Screen 'Paper Trail': From Nevada to the EAC" has some local mentions: a lot on Donetta Davidson; also the Denver disaster with Sequoia's poll book; it starts off talking about how the big fuss about Nevada getting the first paper trail for a DRE was something of a con, as it wasn't certified then. I recommend the book; it has a lot of interesting stuff.

Margit

Margit Johansson