WasProp8Straight.org
New Study Shows Proposition 8 Vote Count
Appears To Have Been Corrupted!
Californians may have been stripped of equal marriage rights as a result of
faulty or even fraudulent election results!
Election Watchdogs and GLBT Rights Groups Call For Investigation!
Note: Voters polled in this exit poll were not asked to tell anybody how they voted!
Each voter marked her/hisresponses on an anonymous form and dropped it into a locked collection box!
What's It All About?
A new analysis of independent exit polls conducted in L.A. County at the November 2008 election indicates significant likelihood that the official vote counts are incorrect. It is indeed possible that the California state constitution was amended to strip marriage rights of some of the state's people as a result of vote counts that were incorrect and possibly even fraudulent.
The polling was conducted by election integrity group Protect California Ballots in conjunction with Election Defense Alliance and ElectionIntegrity.org. Analysis of the poll results performed by Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D., best known for his investigation of the 2004 presidential election in Ohio, was recently completed.
The exit poll methodology used, called an Election Verification Exit Poll (EVEP) is different from the typical exit poll. While the better-known polls conducted by such organizations as Edison-Mitofsky are used to predict election results for the entire area voting on a particular office or ballot question, EVEP is used exclusively to measure the accuracy of the vote counts in the specific locations where the polls are conducted. See the FAQ page and the study itself for more information about the EVEP methodology.
As the introduction to the study says,
"This report is meant as a warning."
The exit poll results alone are not sufficient to prove fraud. The results are strong enough, however, to justify a meticulous investigation into whether or not the votes were counted properly in L.A. county and beyond.
We invite you to join us in calling for that investigation to begin immediately.
See the right sidebar for actions you can take.
Background
California's votes are counted by electronic election systems prone to failure and vulnerable to manipulation by both insiders and hackers. No citizen oversight is possible with electronic concealed vote counting.
In the 2008 election, when Proposition 8 on the California ballot gave voters the opportunity to amend the constitution to strip the right to marriage equality from its people, election integrity advocates monitored the election in a variety of ways. One of the largest efforts was a new type of exit poll conducted in L.A. county by Protect California Ballots in conjunction with Election Defense Alliance.
The EVEP was conducted by trained pollsters in ten polling places representing 19 precincts in L.A. County.
Findings
The overall difference between the official results and the polling results for Proposition 8, was 7.75 %, far outside the poll's margin of error. Differences at individual poll sites climbed as high as 17.7%! For comparison, in the official count, Prop 8 won by 4.6%.
The study analyzes four possible reasons for this disparity:
It appears, therefore, that the official vote counts in the polled precincts are erroneous or fraudulent.
Read the study here.
A new analysis of independent exit polls conducted in L.A. County at the November 2008 election indicates significant likelihood that the official vote counts are incorrect. It is indeed possible that the California state constitution was amended to strip marriage rights of some of the state's people as a result of vote counts that were incorrect and possibly even fraudulent.
The polling was conducted by election integrity group Protect California Ballots in conjunction with Election Defense Alliance and ElectionIntegrity.org. Analysis of the poll results performed by Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D., best known for his investigation of the 2004 presidential election in Ohio, was recently completed.
The exit poll methodology used, called an Election Verification Exit Poll (EVEP) is different from the typical exit poll. While the better-known polls conducted by such organizations as Edison-Mitofsky are used to predict election results for the entire area voting on a particular office or ballot question, EVEP is used exclusively to measure the accuracy of the vote counts in the specific locations where the polls are conducted. See the FAQ page and the study itself for more information about the EVEP methodology.
As the introduction to the study says,
"This report is meant as a warning."
The exit poll results alone are not sufficient to prove fraud. The results are strong enough, however, to justify a meticulous investigation into whether or not the votes were counted properly in L.A. county and beyond.
We invite you to join us in calling for that investigation to begin immediately.
See the right sidebar for actions you can take.
Background
California's votes are counted by electronic election systems prone to failure and vulnerable to manipulation by both insiders and hackers. No citizen oversight is possible with electronic concealed vote counting.
In the 2008 election, when Proposition 8 on the California ballot gave voters the opportunity to amend the constitution to strip the right to marriage equality from its people, election integrity advocates monitored the election in a variety of ways. One of the largest efforts was a new type of exit poll conducted in L.A. county by Protect California Ballots in conjunction with Election Defense Alliance.
The EVEP was conducted by trained pollsters in ten polling places representing 19 precincts in L.A. County.
Findings
The overall difference between the official results and the polling results for Proposition 8, was 7.75 %, far outside the poll's margin of error. Differences at individual poll sites climbed as high as 17.7%! For comparison, in the official count, Prop 8 won by 4.6%.
The study analyzes four possible reasons for this disparity:
- a basic flaw in the exit poll methodology;
- many voters lying on the questionnaire;
- a non-representative sample of voters responding; or
- the official results being erroneous or fraudulent
It appears, therefore, that the official vote counts in the polled precincts are erroneous or fraudulent.
Read the study here.
Election Defense Alliance
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Protect California Ballots
What You Can Do About It
- Add your voice to the call for investigation of the official vote count! Click here to send an email to Secretary of State Debra Bowen.
- Join the Diebold: Return Our Money campaign to demand accountability for this corporation's negligence.
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- Get educated and teach others about the dangers of secret vote counting in electronic election systems!
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Exit Polls in Los Angeles County
Final voter at one exit polling site places exit poll questionnaire into box.
Final voter signs seal on box holding questionnaires.
Elections throughout California are vulnerable to manipulation.
