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2022 U.S. Senate Midterm Elections

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Exit polls in the battle ground states and pre-election polls for the 2022 elections projected the Republican Party to win control of the U.S. Senate. The computerized vote counts reversed these projections with the Democratic Party maintaining control of the Senate. Most countries, unlike the United States, do not allow computers to count their ballots—all ballots must be hand-counted and the process observable. (See highlighted section below). As in past elections, as noted in this website, the discrepancies between Continue Reading →

2020 U.S. SENATE ELECTIONS

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Exit Polls and Pre-Election Polls Versus Computer Counts By Theodore de Macedo Soares Exit polls and pre-election polls projected the Democratic Party to gain control of the Senate on election day 2020. The computerized vote counts have the Republican Party with a two seat advantage. Like the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections and the 2016 U.S. Senate elections the 2020 US Senate races show almost all discrepancies, between the exit polls and the unverified computer counts, favored the Republican Continue Reading →

2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TABLE

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Exit Polls Versus Reported Vote Counts By Theodore de Macedo Soares According to the exit polls conducted by Edison Research, Biden easily won the presidency.  As in past elections, the pattern of overwhelming discrepancies between the exit poll results and the unverified computer vote counts, always favoring the more politically conservative candidate, continues in this election. Incorporating the exit poll results in the New York Times interactive Electoral College map, Biden wins the presidency with a count of 328 Continue Reading →

MISSOURI 2020 DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRIMARY

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Exit Poll Versus Reported Vote Count By Theodore de Macedo Soares As in 11 of the 17 state primaries elections prior to March 17, the discrepancies between exit polls projections and the results of the unobservable computer vote counts in the 2020 Missouri Democratic Party presidential primary is large and beyond the margin of error associated with the exit poll.  Like the 2016 Democratic Party primaries, with candidates Clinton and Sanders, all but one of these large discrepancies favors Continue Reading →

MICHIGAN 2020 DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRIMARY

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Exit Poll Versus Reported Vote Count By Theodore de Macedo Soares  Election results from the computerized vote counts of the 2020 Michigan Democratic Party presidential primary differed significantly from the results projected by the exit poll conducted by Edison Research and published by CNN at poll’s closing. The large discrepancies greatly exceeded the margin of error for the exit poll projected differences between candidates. In this election candidate Sanders underperformed his exit poll projected proportions by 15.4%. Sanders consequently Continue Reading →

CALIFORNIA 2020 DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRIMARY

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Exit Poll Versus Reported Vote Count By Theodore de Macedo Soares Election results from the computerized vote counts of the 2020 California Democratic Party presidential primary differed significantly from the results projected by the exit poll conducted by Edison Research and published by CNN at poll’s closing. According to the exit poll Sanders won big in CA (by 15%). The unobservable computer counts cut his lead by half (to 7.3%). In the total delegate count to date, substituting the Continue Reading →

VERMONT 2020 DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRIMARY

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Exit Poll Versus Reported Vote Count By Theodore de Macedo Soares The 2020 Vermont Democratic Party presidential primary was held on March 3, 2020. Election results from the computerized vote counts differed significantly from the results projected by the exit poll conducted by Edison Research and published by CNN at poll’s closing. In candidate Sanders’ home state, the combined disparities between the exit poll and the vote count for candidates Sanders and Biden at 10.8% exhibited the largest disparity Continue Reading →

TEXAS 2020 DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRIMARY

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Exit Poll Versus Reported Vote Count By Theodore de Macedo Soares The 2020 Texas Democratic Party presidential primary was held on March 3, 2020. Election results from the computerized vote counts differed significantly from the results projected by the exit poll conducted by Edison Research and published by CNN at poll’s closing. According to the exit poll Sanders was tied with Biden but lost in the unobservable computer counts by 4.5%. In this election candidate Sanders saw the largest Continue Reading →

MASSACHUSETTS 2020 DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRIMARY Exit Poll Versus Reported Vote Count

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Table updated with latest vote counts on March 8, 2020. Text edited accordingly and for clarity. By Theodore de Macedo Soares The 2020 Massachusetts Democratic Party presidential primary was held on March 3, 2020. Election results from the computerized vote counts differed significantly from the results projected by the exit poll conducted by Edison Research and published by CNN at poll’s closing. As in the 2016 Massachusetts primary between candidates Sanders and Clinton, disparities greatly exceed the exit poll’s Continue Reading →

SOUTH CAROLINA 2020 DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRIMARY Exit Poll Versus Reported Vote Count

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By Theodore de Macedo Soares The 2020 South Carolina Democratic Party presidential primary was held on February 29, 2020. Election results from the computerized vote counts differed significantly from the results projected by the exit poll conducted by Edison Research and published by CNN at poll’s closing. The disparities exceed the exit poll’s margin of error. Of all presidential candidates, Biden’s vote count exhibited the largest disparity from his exit poll projection. His unverified computer-generated vote totals represented a Continue Reading →