About that Berkeley Study on Voting

Patrick Ruffini is Fisking the UCB study that purported to reveal irregularities in Florida's voting machines that gave Bush 130,000 votes. As he says, rebutting the study doesn't require a book-length Fisking, only a couple of sets of numbers. His conclusion, reached by using the study's own numbers: it's bogus.

Update: Hindrocket at Power Line links to the blog of Sacramento Bee columnist Daniel Weintraub, who has posted an email from a Floridian who, Weintraub says, raises pertinent questions about the Berkeley study. The emailer's conclusion:

All that the study actually found was that Bush's support in Democratic counties of Florida increased more than the level one would have expected from projecting Republican support in 1996 and 2000, and that this increase seems correlated to electronic voting. It does not and cannot tell us whether those "excess" votes are in fact legitimate or a result of fraud... for all that the authors pretend that's what they have found.