Proofiness - Charles Seife [104]
131 “How could anyone bribe someone with Twinkies?” “‘Twinkiegate’ Candidate Faces Charges,” Associated Press, May 23, 1986.
131 The case ended a few weeks later “Twinkiegate Case Closed,” Houston Chronicle , June 5, 1986, 11.
132 “Yesterday, the voters spoke” Jason Hoppin, Dave Orrick, and Rachel Stassen-Berger, “Recount in Senate race evokes memories of 2000,” St. Paul Pioneer Press, November 6, 2008.
132 “If you ask me what I would do” Norm Coleman, press conference, November 5, 2008, available at http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/243080.php.
133 a clerk had accidentally typed Patricia Lopez, “Franken’s Deficit: 236 Votes,” Minneapolis Star-Tribune, November 7, 2008.
134 “[steal] a Senate seat for left-wing joker Al Franken” “Mischief in Minnesota,” Wall Street Journal, November 12, 2008.
134 “statistically dubious” Josh Kraushaar, “No joke: Minnesota race is sooooo ugly . . . ,” Politico.com, November 11, 2008, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15490.html.
134n driving around with them in the back of her car David Brauer, “Minneapolis election director speaks: ‘Ballots in my car’ story false,” MinnPost.com, http://www.minnpost.com/davidbrauer/2008/11/12/4565/minneapolis_election_director_speaks_ballots_in_my_car_story_false.
135 “cut both ways” “Mischief in Minnesota.”
137 Minneapolis’s ABC affiliate commissioned a poll Michelle Knoll, “Poll: Senate results unchanged if election held today,” December 8, 2008, http://kstp.com/article/stories/S695337.shtml.
138 the engineer was surprised to discover Charles King Emma, “Observations on Physical Inventory and Stock Record Error,” Journal of Industrial Engineering, July 1967, 396-402.
138 “Humans counting things” “Every Vote Counts, Unless You Live in MN,” Talk of the Nation, December 8, 2008, http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=97960769&m=97960763.
140 “Our accounting procedures dictate” Charles Seife, telephone conversation with Fran Windschitl, November 29, 2008.
140 In a precinct in Blue Earth County Charles Seife, calculation based upon election data from the Minnesota Secretary of State’s office, http://www.sos.state.mn.us/home/index.asp.
143 “I’ve been before the state canvassing board” Charles Seife, firsthand observation of Ramsey County recount, November 19, 2008.
145 “The Republican incumbent held a slight edge” Brian Bakst, “Coleman keeps edge as hand recount wraps up,” Associated Press, December 5, 2009.
145 Nate Silver used regression analyses Nate Silver, “Projection: Franken to win by 27 votes,” FiveThirtyEight.com, November 23, 2008, http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/projection-franken-to-win-recount-by-27.html.
145 Two weeks later, he reversed himself Nate Silver, “Statistical Models Now Show Coleman as Slight Favorite,” FiveThirtyEight.com, December 2, 2008, http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/12/statistical-models-now-show-coleman-as.html.
148 “There is no more precious right in a democracy” Minnesota State Canvassing Board meeting, November 18, 2008.
149 “It’s actually the responsibility of the voter” Fritz Knaak, impromptu conversation with the press in the Minnesota statehouse, November 18, 2008.
151 “were cast in areas which favored Coleman” Coleman et al. v. Franken, No. 62-CV-09-56, Contestee’s Answer and Counterclaims, January 12, 2009, 7.
153 “error in the vote tabulation” 2000 Florida Statutes, Title IX, Ch. 102, Part 166, §(4)(c).
154n “Palm Beach County is a Pat Buchanan stronghold” Jake Tapper, “Buchanan camp: Bush claims are ‘nonsense,’” Salon.com, November 10, 2000, http://dir.salon.com/story/politics/feature/2000/11/10/buchanan/.
157 “I can not believe” Mark Whitman, ed., Florida 2000: A Sourcebook on the Contested Presidential Election (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003), 106.
159 “It is obvious” Bush v. Gore, majority opinion, December 12, 2000.
160n “Our consideration is limited” Ibid.
160n “Respectfully, the Supreme Court” Stewart v. Blackwell, majority opinion, April