GUEST 03 Nov 04 - 10:55 AM writes

I think the fears over the Diebold machines simply didn't pan out. They worked fine.

The problem is, GUEST, that there is no way to tell if this is true or not. The problems anticipated with the Diebold machines would be undetectable.

In fact, the only symptom would be exit polls that don't match the machine tallies...which is exactly what we saw.

I hope, for the sake of getting to the bottom of the Diebold issue, that someone studies the following question: were the discrpancies between exit polls and election results significantly greater when touch-screen vote machines were used? If so, we have a problem.

It's too late for such a study to affect this election, of course. Like last time, Bush won...but this time he did so more convincingly. Could it have been jimmied? Unfortunately, yes it could.