McCullogh & Plassmann assert that the Hout study “is entirely without merit and its results are meaningless.” They find that Hout and his colleagues made a basic error in their model, in attempting to quantify the number of “excess votes” for Bush. This can be shown, McCullogh and Plassmann explain, by relying on the same data and model to reach the opposite conclusion — namely that electronic voting favored Kerry.
I said it was bogus when it came out, Patrick Ruffini found it didn’t pass the smell test, and now its been bludgeoned some more.
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