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Scott McLean, a political science professor at Quinnipiac, defended its polling methodology, saying that the election was too far away to identify likely voters reliably.
The government of René Préval, which was accused of rigging the election, objected to the report's methodology.Yet the foreign pressure to dump Mr Celestin continued, especially from the United States, which put $14 million into the election.
"We resolved to stay independent of government control and began developing indigenous methodologies to monitor the election," says Rizvi.
But a number of polling and election law experts cast doubts on the methodology and suggested the process could be a smokescreen for voter intimidation.
They did this even though Hitler demonstrated his methodology almost immediately after the election, by arresting tens of thousands of his political opponents and putting them in concentration camps.
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The methodology is applied to popular elections to the House of Representatives, where sorting is neither expected nor found, and to roll call voting in the House, where sorting is both expected and found.
Methodology: Byelection and the preceding general election results analysed include every byelection held since the 1992 general election.
Researchers said the report's findings had raised eyebrows in Whitehall, proving less welcome to Labour than a study using similar methodology published shortly before the 1997 election.
