Breaking: Final result gives Mitt Romney an 8-vote win in Iowa caucuses

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

73. Thank you for your response and the link.

That's an interesting list of close election results. I see it goes back to the 1800s and includes election results from multiple countries.

As for the separation of less that 7 one-thousandths of 1 percent not being a statistical anomaly, perhaps we should visit the question of what constitutes of statistical anomaly.

If you flip a true coin 100 times and it comes down heads exactly 50 times and tails exactly 50 times, is this a statistical anomaly? If we conducted this experiment (100 coin flips) a hundred million times surely we would get the 50-50 result more than once, but within what variable range should we expect it? How many occurrences out of a hundred million before we say this 50-50 result we're getting is happening too often, outside the expected range and constitutes an anomaly?

I think we're seeing too many dead heat election results over the last decade in this country, and in fact, I see in the list you provided, 20 of these close elections were from the US. And of these 20, which dated back to an 1839 Massachusetts gubernatorial race (a span of some 170 plus years), 14 have taken place since the year 2000 (over two thirds of them just from the last decade). What, if anything, are we to make of that?

Here's what I make of it: I think dead heat election results are being engineered/predetermined, and that there's a link between this phenomena and the widespread introduction of e-voting in the US. Also, I believe e-voting is controlled through private corporate proxies by the GOP, which has enabled them to steal numerous elections over the last decade.

All that said, my understanding is that the Iowa Caucuses were done with paper ballots, but also that they were taken away to undisclosed locations for tallying overseen by the GOP.