I had an e-mail discussion with Kathy Dopp of USCountVotes. She has agreed to make public a challenge she presented to me privately and we here at OlbermannWatch.com respect that. Therefore, until such time as we can come up with a qualified statistician or two who is willing to go on the record and publicly refute the analysis contained in the report linked below we are going to lay off the "loony left" cracks and accept the challenge in the spirit it was offered. Now, come on people...starting working the phones...let's reach out and get some qualified skeptics involved.

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Robert,

Please feel free to post this as a challenge at OlbermannWatch.com along w/ the needed links.

Thank you very much.

Kathy Dopp
http://uscountvotes.org

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USCountVotes would love to issue a challenge for any PhD level credentialled statistician who is affiliated with any university in America to find any statements in our "Response to Edison/Mitofsky Report" that they believe are incorrect and publicly refute it. We will be happy to respond when and if such a person can be found. Some in our group are planning to provide an addendum to our study that points up two additional substantial evidence that are provided by the E/M report that refutes their theory that "Kerry voters more likely to answer exit polls". If there is a statistician in America who will risk his academic reputation by publicly speaking out against our factual findings on the E/M report then we are very pleased to begin a public academic debate with that person."

The statisticians' study is available online at
http://uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/USCountVotes_Re_Mitofsky-Edison.pdf

The full text of the Edison/Mitofsky report is available at
http://www.exit-poll.net/election-night/EvaluationJan192005.pdf