The Ohio vote count data that the DNC and Kerry should have obtained and studied, along with Ohio's precinct-level exit poll data, before making any conclusions about the validity of Ohio's vote counts, is now partially available. (It is impossible to make reasonable conclusions about the accuracy of vote miscounts without first obtaining and analyzing detailed vote count data - &/or doing independent audits of vote counts.) These files were uploaded to ElectionArchive.org yesterday from Rady Ananda in Ohio. Each file is one county, including all races in the 11/02/04 election. The data is still missing a crucial breakdown by vote type (absentee, overseas, military, early, provisional, and Election Day).

http://electionarchive.org/ucvData/OH/20041102/

It may only be possible to restore democracy if candidates begin demanding to obtain and analyze their own detailed election data prior to conceding any election. Americans don't want a quick outcome. We want an accurate outcome.

Please Help us Restore U.S. Democracy in the following two ways.

1. Send copies of NEDA's Ohio exit poll analysis to your own representatives, candidates, and party leaders (of any party from city to national leaders) and ask them to stop conceding elections without first conducting independent audits and performing detailed election data analysis:

National Election Data Archive's Mathematical Analysis
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/OH/Ohio-Exit-Polls-2004.pdf

2. Help Us Challenge the U.S. mainstream media to the "2004 Presidential Election Math Challenge: NEDA versus ESI - Who is Correct?"

media contacts: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/

Ask the media to take the following two analyses of the 2004 precinct-level Ohio exit poll discrepancies to any mathematics department and ask them to determine which analysis is mathematically correct.

ONLY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING MATHEMATICAL ANALYSES IS CORRECT. WHICH IS IT?

1. National Election Data Archive's Mathematical Analysis which claims that there is evidence of vote miscounts in Ohio's exit poll discrepancies
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/OH/Ohio-Exit-Polls-2004.pdf

OR

2. Mitofsky and Election Science Institute's Mathematical Analysis which claims that its analysis dismisses vote fraud as a cause for the exit poll discrepancies
http://electionscience.org/Members/stevenhertzberg/report.2005-07-19.7420722886/report_contents_file/

This is not a "He-said/She-said" story. There is mathematically provable truth that is discernable by ANY mathematics department. The future of civilization depends on the U.S. press reporting the REAL state of vote-count integrity in America.

Please ask press to accept this "Math Challenge: Who is Correct About the 2004 Presidential Exit Poll Discrepancies?"

Thank you. If anyone would like to help write a brief press release for this math challenge, I would greatly appreciate it.

Sincerely,

Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org

How Can We Ensure that Votes are Counted Accurately?
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/election_officials/Audits_Monitoring.pdf

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The Ohio vote count data that the DNC and Kerry should have obtained and studied. To get the precinct-level data used in the DNC Ohio 2004 report, see

http://macht.arts.cornell.edu/wrm1/Ohio2004/replic2/replic2.html

Or download the file described there directly from

http://macht.arts.cornell.edu/wrm1/Ohio2004/DNCreplic2.zip

I posted that on June 23, 2005.

Walter Mebane