[exit82]

You tell me what the chances are that the vote would be evenly split on a sample of over 155,000 votes.

Someone was cranking out false votes or changing vote totals to beat the band here.

[steve-b]

That's a basic fallacy. The chances of any specific outcome are billions to one against, and yet some outcome has to arise.

Your argument is equivalent to praising a golfer's superhuman aim because he put the golf ball on one pile of grains in the sand trap instead of some other pile of grains six inches to either side.