Elections & Electronic Voting

Here is what the exit polls showed before they were adjusted to match the "official" results.

Here’s what the election results looked like based on the exit polls, before the data was corrupted by adding and ultimately substituting the official results. If nothing else we should know that this country did turn out in record numbers and did most soundly repudiate Bush, before the computer tabulation "fixed" the results in key states.

Throughout the world exit polling is used to monitor the results where corrupt regimes are suspected of attempting to rig elections. Where the two agree, the elections are deemed legitimate, where they diverge sharply in favor of those in power the implication is obvious. The situation in the US with extremely partisan officials in control of the balloting in several key states is regarded as so bad that it does not meet the most basic criteria for international observers.

And here it is adjusted for population, where the surface area of each state represents its relative population.

The above image is borrowed from: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/ and simply recolored in six states.

But their most interesting map is the one below, which should actually have more blue in a number of counties in the swing states to complete the set portraying the exit polling data and thus the true state of the country, but it still conveys the reality of public opinion very well this way.

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