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Flat White

Polling failure and fraud

30 June 2016

11:57 AM

30 June 2016

11:57 AM

Apart from empowering the British people and returning sovereignty to the United Kingdom, Brexit has exploded the myth that betting markets are infallible predictors of elections. The last British election had already demonstrated the fallibility of opinion polls. Meanwhile in Australia, opinion polls are even more fallible because they don’t ask three crucial questions which are essential because of the curious openness of our system to electoral fraud.

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