DAILY ILLINI: The F word

The F word

http://www.dailyillini.com/news/2004/12/10/Opinions/Opinion.Column.The.F.Word-827227.shtml

By Adam Zmick

Issue: 12/10/04

It's official: There will be another election. The unofficial count
showed the conservative candidate with a 3 percent lead in the popular
tally, but allegations of fraud and corruption have tainted those
results.

Numerous cases of voter suppression have been reported, and anomalies
in regional vote counts have gone unexplained. The most damning
evidence of voter fraud, however, is the difference between the vote
count and the exit-poll results. The exit poll shows the election
results to be statistically impossible.

Exit polls are internationally renowned for their accuracy. These
surveys, given to voters as they leave the polling place, are the
international standard for verifying the honesty with which elections
are conducted. For instance, because the law in Germany requires a
hand count, Germans know what happened on Election Night solely
because of exit-poll results. In the past 20 years, those exit polls
never have been wrong.

Now, before I go any further, I should probably specify which country
I'm writing about here. I'm talking about Ukraine.

(SNIP)

Adam Zmick is a senior in engineering. His column will appear next
Tuesday. He can be reached at opinions@dailyillini.com.

Great piece.