
Journal pudge's Journal: What Next in WA? 37
The TV station KING 5 in Seattle did a poll about the recent election, asking residents across the state (not just voters). The results (with a margin of error at 4.5%) surprised me.
53 percent to 36 percent said Rossi should not concede. 56-35 percent said he won (down from 66-24 before the hand recount). And a whopping 59-38 percent said we should have a new election.
What surprised me most, apart from the fact that the current loser is perceived by a solid majority to be the winner, is that more people want a new election than think he won, or that he should not concede. I would think that number should be smaller than the others.
And what sort of person would say that Rossi should concede, but that they do not think Gregoire is the winner? There's at least a few of those.
How many votes is that down to? (Score:1)
Anyway... you guys do what you like. I'm not big on the whole telling other states what to do/donating money thing.
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Statistically speaking, there's no such thing in a straight poll. You just asked the entire population (eligible & registered voters who bothered to vote), so no statistical margin of error exists, since you were not trying to extrapolate what others think from a smaller sample.
Just wanted to toss that out there. Reporters have fucked that one up for us, as they rarely know what the hell they are talking about when it comes to polls.
In WA (Score:2)
Wow. Just. Wow.
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SHUT UP!!!
I am guessing that it was my subconscious screaming for an end to this fiasco, but I might be wrong.
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Pfft. Its just one poll. What questions were asked? How were they asked? Who was asked? Finding out how the polling was done would be just as interesting as the final percentage.**
**Yes, the radio's website might have that info, but when I went to their page, they wanted me to register before letting me see anything. And they apparantly block Bugmenot. And disabl
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Better tell Taco then, because somebody hacked into Slashdot and added a link to your journal entry. You know, this [king5.com] one. A web site.
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Someone who believes in preserving the appearance of validity in the system? Someone who might say "The system produced this outcome, we should honor it, and not paralyze this State." Interesting since it seems comparable to a Deomcrat saying Kerry should concede because contesting the election would paralyze the nation.
more people want a new election than thi
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So they believe in preserving the appearance of validity, while not believing it actually is valid? Heh. That's odd to me.
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Here's a breakdown. It's too narrow a Margin. Dino Rossi won the first two counts, Gregoire pushes for an even more inaccurate hand recount, and then wins the thrid recount. When she was down by a margin of what she has now won by, she was calling it a tie and saying she won't concede. Now she is saying she won and Rossi should concede. A lot of people, even Democrats thinks this is bad. A LOT of people see Gregoire a
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It doesn't make sense for the rules to be rewritten because of a close race. The rules need to be followed. If this recount has been done and it shows the winner to only have won by a handful of votes, so be it.
Now, this does not mean that areas where fraud is believed to have occured should not be investigated, but to decide now that a new election should occur inval
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ps Pudge why so quiet lately? Almost no posting in the journal during the hand recount and no posting in the Mac section for a while. What's up?
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(I got your email, I just didn't get around to answering it.
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Instead of allowing moderators to leave comments to the poster (or m2'r), allow the m2'r to leave a message to the moderator. I've stopped m2'ing because when I'd just unfair an informative it didn't let the mod know why... It'd be nice to let someone know that a Michael Moore comment isn't insightful, but much more inciteful
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This discussion was created by CmdrTaco (1) as Friends and Friends
of Friends only. Offer them or one of their friends a bribe and maybe
they will let you post.
Hey, pudge... need a new mac?
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my wife OTOH says she just wants it to be over so she can stop hearing about it.
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I'd be more concerned with poorly run polling stations. I'm in California -- and my polling place appeared to be mishandling provisional ballots.
Provisional ballots SHOULD be put aside in an envolope for later validation that the voter was in fact registered and/or had not already voted elsewhere.
What they WERE doing -- at least on ONE particular vote was to take it and were about to put it in the REGULAR votes. I noticed this and chim
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It depends on how you look at it; I know simple math tells us that 130 fraudulent votes for Gregoire should be enough to take some action, but slightly more complex math tells us that we won't uncover all the problems, and we need to have some sort of framework for determining how we will judge and weight abnormalities. I don't know what form that framework should take.
The nature of the problems matters. Apparently, there were some vot
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As far as "sucking it up and taking one for the team." Nope, that (unwrittten) rule went away 4 years ago...
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Right, *if* it can be proven that the there was a serious problem with the election as it was conducted. We need to find that out, first.
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As long as there's time to learn from those mistakes/problems before the next election.
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I don't think anyone is saying we should not check out the problems, only that we shouldn't hold up the certification of the election for it.
My suggestion... (Score:2)
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Do you have an archive of pudge.net? (Score:2)
Do you have an archive somewhere of these "rants" you wrote back in 2000? I'd like to read them again:
Google and Archive.org don't have copies.
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