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162 “In twenty-five precincts” The Journal Editorial Report, Fox News, January 10, 2009.
162 closer to seven hundred precincts Charles Seife, calculation based upon election data from the Minnesota Secretary of State’s office, http://www.sos.state.mn.us/home/index.asp.
163 “brought into sharp focus” Bush v. Gore, majority opinion, December 12, 2000.
6: An Unfair Vote
181n “Project Ratfuck” Jeffrey Toobin, “The Great Election Grab,” New Yorker, December 8, 2003.
182 the Republicans called in the Department of Homeland Security Henry A. Waxman et al., letter to Tom Ridge, June 4, 2003.
188 all but about 2 percent of the population Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Monitoring Board, Final Report to Congress, September 1, 2001, 6.
192 “Properly designed sampling” Department of Commerce v. U.S. House of Representatives , Amicus Curiae Brief of the American Statistical Association.
193 will “give the party controlling Congress” Department of Commerce v. U.S. House of Representatives, Scalia’s concurrence.
193 It was inserted during the drafting of the U.S. Constitution Margaret Mikyung Lee, “Sampling for Census 2000: A Legal Overview,” Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, Report CRS-97-871, updated December 30, 1998, 3.
193n One theory is that people were afraid Ibid.
196 “well familiar with methods of estimation” Utah v. Evans, 536 U.S. 452 (2002), Thomas’s opinion.
7: Alternate Realities
199 The chapter epigraph is drawn from Angela Tuck, “‘Objective truth’ passes the test for letters to the editor,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, August 4, 2007, A15.
200 “wholly wanting and misleading” Will E. Edington, “House Bill No. 246, Indiana State Legislature, 1897,” Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 45 (1935): 207.
200 The bill got off to a great start “Indiana pi, ” http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/crd/Localgov/Second%20Level%20pages/Indiana_Pi_Story.htm.
200 “might as well try to legislate” Edington, “House Bill No. 246, Indiana State Legislature, 1897,” 210.
202 “. . . 50 percent—perhaps as high as 80 percent” I. G. Good, “When batterer turns murderer,” Nature, June 15, 1995, 541; John Allen Paulos, “Murder he wrote,” http://www.math.temple.edu/~paulos/oj.html.
203 He was so skeptical of the condition Roy Meadow, “Unnatural Sudden Infant Death,” Archives of Disease in Childhood 80 (1999): 7-14.
204 A blistering article Stephen J. Watkins, “Conviction by mathematical error?” British Medical Journal, January 1, 2000, 2-3.
204 “invalid” Peter Green, “Letter from the President to the Lord Chancellor regarding the use of statistical evidence in court cases,” January 23, 2002.
205 only if a jury finds that he would continue Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 37.071.
205 Grigson was nicknamed “Dr. Death” “They Call Him Dr. Death,” Time, June 1, 1981.
206 “The large body of research” Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S. 880 (1983), Amicus Curiae Brief of the American Psychiatric Association, October 1982.
207 “A layman with access” Barefoot v. Estelle, dissent.
207 “The suggestion that no psychiatrist’s testimony” Barefoot v. Estelle, majority opinion.
207 “Sharon, tell all my friends goodbye” Texas Department of Criminal Justice, “Last Statement—Thomas Barefoot,” http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/barefootthomaslast.htm.
208 By the mid-1980s “They Call Him Dr. Death.” Time, June 1, 1981.
208 expelled Grigson for ethics violations Laura Beil, “Groups Expel Texas Psychiatrist Known for Murder Cases,” Dallas Morning News, July 26, 1995, A36.
209 “an increase in traffic of at least 100 percent” 49 CFR 1105.7(e)(5)(i)(A).
209 “The cities believe” Lee’s Summit v. Surface Transportation Board, 231 F.3d 39; 343 U.S. App. D.C. 405, Decision, November 14, 2000.
211 “The result of these blood grouping tests” Berry v. Chaplin, 74 Cal. App. 2d 652; 169 P.2d 442; May 27, 1946.
212 “The DNA test Osborne seeks” District Attorney’s Office for the Third Judicial District v. Osborne, 521 F. 3d 1118 (2009), dissent.
214 “to prevail under the Equal Protection Clause” McCleskey v. Kemp, 481