Questions emerge about statistical sampling used on rejected anti-coal petition

Questions emerge about statistical sampling used on rejected anti-coal petition

A statistics professor raises concerns about Elections Alberta's sampling method used to verify Corb Lund's Water Not Coal petition which was deemed to be under the signature threshold last week.

Something’s gravely wrong with how Elections Alberta torpedoed Corb Lund’s Water Not Coal citizen initiative petition

Combined with ongoing UCP electoral jiggery-pokery, this is turning into a genuine crisis of democratic legitimacy Public sentiment that something’s gravely wrong with the methodology used by Elections Alberta to abort musician and clean-water advocate Corb Lund’s Water Not Coal citizen initiative petition appears to be growing.  University of Toronto statistics professor Jeffrey Rosenthal, whose calculations suggest Mr. Lund is probably right …