2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: All of those attendees at Sanders rallies probably [View all]Sancho
(9,070 posts)Geraldine Ferrero used to draw large, enthusiastic crowds. So did Sarah Palin! Social scientists have written about the fact that "non-ignorable, non-respondents" make polls inaccurate and crowd size a poor predictor.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1164602?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents (Eelworms, Bullet Holes, and Geraldine Ferraro: Some Problems with Statistical Adjustment and Some Solutions).
It has nothing to do with the latest "myth" of "election fraud". BTW, there have cases of miscounting votes for many years too, but that's a different issue. The truth is that young people don't vote at a very high proportion. That's another fact that hasn't changed much lately.
Even though elections in the US probably need a better system to assure voting integrity, the majority of abuse has likely been DRE hacking by the GOP, not undercounting votes in primaries.