Hey doc! Read The Boston Sunday Glove, page A-31, by Tina Cassidy. She presents direct quotes from the Votomatic machine's investor, William S. Rouverol and a Yale University statistician Nicholas Hengartner, who also is a statistical consultant for the district attorney's office in New Haven.
[NOTE: My original information on this came from an network interview with Congressman Jerry Nadler. In consideration of Hengartner's remarks below, either Nadler misspoke, or I didn't hear him right. Anyway, as I now read what Hengartner contends, the statistics are a bit different, yet still very much in the same statistical ballpark.]
Hengartner analyzed 48 Florida counties:
"The counties that used optical voting systems registered undervotes in 3 of 1,000 votes, he said. The incidence from punch cards is 15 of 1,000.
"'The probability that this five-fold increase in the undervote rate can be attributed to chance alone is practically zerio, and is less than being hit by lightening five times," Hengartner said. "The odds are even worse in Palm Beach County where 22 of 1,000 voters cast an undervote in the presidential election.'"
I'll transcribe the following from the article:
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