How Walker Really Won Wisconsin

[eridani]

51. No member of the public needs to prove fraud under any circumstances

The elections department needs to prove that there is not for each election. Who gives a shit what Barrett did? What matters is what the elections department did not do.

What analytical chemists do to prove our results reliable--

--present methodology descriptions and clear chain of custody data
--present standard curves and the data on the check standards injected every tenth sample
--present system suitability results
--present daily system check results for every piece of equipment used, from scales all the way up to quadrupole mass spectrometers.
--present software validation data
--present internal standard data
--present data on duplicate samples (every 10th one), blank samples, solvent spiked samples and matrix spiked samples to show that percent recovery results are in a specific designated range
--present a set of hand calculations with every data set to illustrate that calculation software is functioning correctly.

No customer EVER has to present evidence that our results are wrong. We must present evidence that our results are right. Real confidence in election results should be at least as important as confidence that you know how many ppm of benzo(a)pyrene is in your drinking water.