VICTOR ROMERO: It’s a miracle.
GREG PALAST: How did the miracle occur?
VICTOR ROMERO: How did the miracle occur? I don't know.
GREG PALAST: On a computer printout, Dr. Romero showed how the official tallies matched the exit polls, with challenger Lopez Obrador ahead by 2% all night. That is, until the very end, when several precincts came in for the ruling party by 10-to-1, and then 100-to-1, putting their candidate Felipe Calderon over the top, literally in the last minutes. The doctor found that statistically improbable.
VICTOR ROMERO: We reached the point I said, “It’s over.” But then, from 71% ‘til the very end, there was not a single moment in which the difference from one report to the next became bigger.
GREG PALAST: So it didn't change at all. Just was perfect.
VICTOR ROMERO: Perfect, perfect. And so we just couldn't believe it. I mean, it fell -- with 5% to go, it fell one full point.
GREG PALAST: So then, what happened?
VICTOR ROMERO: Another miracle. Statistically, it's a second miracle. But now it is --
GREG PALAST: Well, are you a religious man?
VICTOR ROMERO: I’m not a religious man.
GREG PALAST: So you don't believe in miracles?
VICTOR ROMERO: No, but other people do, so, you know. They say that it works even if you don’t believe in them, so.
GREG PALAST: The results may not seem so miraculous if you take a look at these voter sheets. This is from a district in Guanajuato, which shows that Calderon picked up 192 votes, but Obrador, the challenger, got only 12. And here’s how this miraculous total can be explained. ...
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/12/146201
2006-07-14 08:31:39 · 8 answers · asked by lifelover 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Did you read the entire article?
2006-07-14 08:47:02 · update #1
Reliability of exit polls
1. The same US online encyclopedia cited above ([11]) states that
"Exit poll data - asking voters which way they voted as they leave the polls - are used around the world as excellent predictors of actual vote counts, usually accurate within a fraction of a point.
2006-07-14 08:50:40 · update #2
Yes - they were fixed - there is a lot of election fraud in the World today. In the USA - it is planned - there are now millions of electronic voting machines with no paper trail - they are manufactured to make them vulnerable to Fraud.
2006-07-14 09:00:54 · answer #1 · answered by fatsausage 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The elections in Mexico are supposed to be the most transparent and the cleanest of all times in the world...
There was a representative from each party at every ballot, at the end of the election the ballot president with the other officials were counting each vote in front of the representatives; at the end an act was written and signed with conformity by each one of the representatives...
Also there were European observers...
So... what do you think?
2006-07-14 08:41:28 · answer #2 · answered by cesargn86 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Said to me by a Mexican National, a few years ago.
US knows a few hours after their election, who the winners are.
In Mexico, we know a month before the election.
"A government agent is sent out to register voters, and is paid for each registered voter, IF the registrant intends to vote for the right party. The first question the agent asks, 'is who are you going to vote for'?"
2006-07-14 08:42:05 · answer #3 · answered by ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get over it....look at the reliability of the data...exit polls are rarely correct.
2006-07-14 08:37:20 · answer #4 · answered by jpxc99 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ohio and Florida definitely had election fraud issues in 2004.
2006-07-14 08:35:06 · answer #5 · answered by extton 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
USA-not! Tacoland-who cares? One beaner is the same as another!
2006-07-14 08:46:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think The USA's were.
2006-07-14 08:39:20 · answer #7 · answered by fonzey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all three. source: common sense.
2006-07-14 09:00:06 · answer #8 · answered by david c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋