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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (246468)4/9/2002 5:30:01 PM
From: Zoltan!  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
This report cites the lies and errors of the racists:

Report on Florida Election Was ‘Shoddy’ and ‘Partisan’ Says Abigail Thernstrom

Minority Report by Lexington Resident Decries Politicization of Civil Rights
massnews.com

I think everyone should find it curious that the racists wouldn't release the data they based their lies on.

...Most recently, a request for basic data to which we—and indeed, any member of the public—were entitled was denied to us. The Commission hired Professor Allan Lichtman, an historian at American University, to examine the relationship between spoiled ballots and the race of voters. We asked for a copy of the machine-readable data that Professor Lichtman used to run his correlations and regressions. That is, we wanted his computer runs, the data that went into them, and the regression output that was produced. The Commission told us that it did not exist—that the data as he organized it for purposes of analysis was literally unavailable. Professor Lichtman, who knows that as a matter of scholarly convention such data should be shared, also declined to provide it.

Even now, five weeks after our first request, we still have not received the multiple regressions and the machine-readable data that were used in them. They are the foundation upon which the Commission’s report largely rests....
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