[Marxism] Stealing the elections

[Aaron Aarons]

>From: "Joaquin Bustelo" <jbustelo at gmail.com>
>Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:32:16 -0400
>
>I wrote about this at the time. A college prof in Texas was able to deduce
>the formula being used for generating vote counts for the last half or
>two-thirds of the counting for both the preliminary and the final, official
>count.  The giveaway was the correlation between the PRD and PAN vote
>counts, which was .99997 in the first count, and .997 in the second (where
>the professor had to reconstruct the counts from rounded percentages to two
>decimal places, accounting for the slightly lower correlation).

Joaquin,

In the earlier post referenced below, you wrote:

>Professor López's two papers reached me from Prof. Nelson Valdés's "Socialanalysis" email list as PDF attachments. Both are in Spanish. [...] I was unable to find a web posting of the two papers.

I would like to have the two papers. If they are on the web now, please post the URLs. If not, could you email them to me off-list? (Since I imagine some others on the list might want to make the same request, I'm sending this to the list with a Bcc to you.)

 - Aaron

>Because the PRD and PAN had widely varying levels of support in different
>areas, the accumulating results should have traced jagged lines with many
>ups and downs. But the results --at least for the last part of the counts--
>trace a perfectly straight line. The conclusion of the professor who did the
>study was "the data ... are artificial."
>
>My original post is here:
>
>http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2006w27/msg00244.htm
>
>Joaquin