>Someone commented in a column that if there was a "likely" state for a rigged election, it was Florida!
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>Was I the only one to think the Repulicans might have cheated when the network predictions were wrong? I once worked in quality control and learned that when the sample doesn't match the product, it is rarely a random failure, usually means either someone was "selecting" the sample or that after the sample was taken, someone changed the population!
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>I doubt the networks wanted to be embarrassed, so we can assume they sampled carefully, which leads to the other possibility, the ballots cast don't match the intended votes!
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>So why not just forget about Florida ! Let the other 49 states decide !
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>They'll have 4 years to get it right, and the other 49 states won't have to worry about which side stole the election!

That is incorrect. The networks were terribly embarrassed, relying on information from the Voter News Service:

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/2000/11/20/close.html