How secure are our elections? What if you knew that hacking a voting machine is so easy that at a cyber security conference in 2017 an entire array of commonly used machines was hacked in a matter of hours? What if you knew that in 301 elections Republican candidates outperformed exit polls over a 12 year period? What if you knew that the odds of that happening by random chance are 42 million to one?
Forty-Two Million to One is a political thriller about voting machine manipulation. In this thought-provoking book, Lucy Gilmore, a young reporter, begins a journey to uncover proof that voting machines have been hacked and that the outcomes of elections have been altered. Along the way, she discovers the real events that demonstrate just how vulnerable our democracy has become. Forty-Two Million to One speaks not just to voting machine corruption but the state of our democracy and why our struggle to govern effectively becomes more difficult every year.
This book contains a number of probability calculations, p-values, that state the likelihood that differences between exit poll predictions and actual election outcome could be due to random chance.
The exit poll data is based upon the initial exit polls reports released shortly after polls close. It is necessary to use the early reports because after actual election results are released exit poll numbers are adjusted to match the actual election results and are, therefore, not useful for comparisons with actual election results.
This data does not include all state-wide elections held between 2004 and 2016. In some elections, no exit polls were conducted. In other elections, we were not able to acquire the early exit poll reports. It does include all elections where that data could be found.
The p-values cited in the book are based upon a comparison of the Republican candidate two party exit poll percentage with the Republican candidate two party election day percentage.
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"Hal Malchow, a leading national political consultant, has written a book that explains how easy it is to manipulate our election results and shares new evidence that tampering may have actually happened. Forty-Two Million to One is an important book that should interest every American concerned about protecting our democracy."