Andy Taylor: A Sight To Behold
So I tune into the webcast of the Heflin/Vo Hearing. Andy Taylor is up speaking. He gets into numbers, which are more than a little critical in proving his case. Says something like 140 voters identified and interviewed by both sides, with 2/3 of them voting for Vo and 1/3 voting for Heflin. Taylor acknowledges that since they also reach various voters in addition that were questionable and could not remember who they voted for, they did something magical ... and I mean it in the purest sense of the word:
They ASSUMED that the remainder of challenged voters would have voted the same way. God as my witness, there's a chart making this very inane point that Taylor pointed out to the committee.
No mountain of evidence that intentional fraud was perpetuated. No mathematical proof that if illegal voters allowed by Paul Bettencourt's office hadn't voted or misdirected voters on election day hadn't cast ballots, that Heflin would win. And based on all that, Taylor makes the grand leap of faith argument that Heflin should be seated.
Un-freakin'-believable.
Comments
While the idea of statistical sampling is logically valid, I doubt that Heflin's team were so statistically rigorous in their selection. Not only does the sample has to be representative, it has to be large enough. I don't see evidence of either.
Further, given the number that we're talking, what use sampling instead of counting them all unless . . . you don't want to count them all. :)
Posted by: Tx Bubba | January 27, 2005 02:09 PM