Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Is the University of New Hampshire cooking the books with biased election polls?


A potential scandal involving the University of New Hampshire’s Survey Center is developing. The UNH pollsters may have been paid by the Manchester Union Leader and the Hearst-owned WMUR-TV to rig 2014 election poll results to “erase” the name of a major candidate who could be running second in other independent but unknown polls. U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin has given the University of New Hampshire until May 27th to explain its actions and relationship with the tainted media outlets.


Andy Martin
Republican for U.S. Senator
www.AndyMartin2014.com

you can call Andy:
(603) 518-7310
(866) 706-2639

you can email Andy:
andynewhampshire@aol.com

you can write Andy at:
fax (866) 707-2639, or
P. O. Box 742
Manchester, NH 03105-0742

Blogs/web sites  (partial):
NewHampshireRepublicans.wordpress.com
AndyMartin.com
FirstRespondersOnline.us
ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com
ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com

May 20, 2014

Mr. Andrew Smith
The Survey Center
Huddleston Hall Room G05
73 Main Street
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824

Re: UNH Survey Center participation in media fraud

Dear Mr. Smith:

When a private entity commits fraud or aids and abets in a scheme or artifice to defraud, such behavior is a serious legal matter. When a state university participates in fraud or a scheme or artifice to defraud that is a civil rights violation. State agencies are obviously held to higher standards than private entities.

When a state conducts what is otherwise a private business activity, such as providing services for a private entity (by conducting a “poll”) the state does not lose its status as a public actor.

For some time I have suspected that the Survey Center is “cooking the books” in the 2014 U. S. Senate Republican Party primary.

I was planning to send you a letter indicating a lawsuit was imminent, when something got me to write today. While Twitter is hardly a source that would support a dissertation, a lot of truth sometimes slides through the cracks on Twitter, and reaches the sunlight. Someone claims to have seen polls placing me second in the senate primary (see below).

Recently you were quoted as saying there were only “four” senate candidates. [http://www.examiner.com/article/survey-points-to-rough-going-for-n-h-democrats]

That’s the lie used by the clowns at the Union Leader and the Hearst Family’s TV station to drive down my poll numbers and exterminate my campaign. Obviously your “three candidates” number is a lie, and you know it. So why were you lying?  “Erasing” a legitimate candidate for federal office is a serious civil rights violation.

I am the only anti-Brown candidate who has been using any broadcast advertising for several months. A Suffolk University poll found me at the lower end the responses, but still alive and moving. And you say I don’t exist?

It appears to me that you have been manipulating your poll results to further the fraudulent intent of both the Hearst Family and the McQuaid Family. Instead of being a servant of the truth, New Hampshire’s leading public university has become a valet of the wealthy.

One reason to file a lawsuit would be to expose all of your sampling information and the parameters you used to conduct your “polls.” Also, I suspect that your “clients” are asking you to pretend my candidacy does not exist. A private party can lie; a state actor cannot participate in such a fraudulent scheme.

The law always favors the settlement of disputes. While I am always prepared to litigate, litigation is a last resort. I prefer to settle disputed claims.

Please carefully review your posture and get back to me no later than Tuesday, May 27th. I will take no action until then.

Sincerely yours,

Andy Martin

AM:sp

W/encl. (below)


https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https://twitter.com/susanthe/status/468740601417306112&t=1&sig=7ab682a00fc6168196b7f5b76645143fff2c8189&iid=3db28dfca7d04ecf8468104323d04665&uid=23290631&nid=4+1282



NH GOP vs. NH GOP. Pass the popcorn. This guy knows how to put drama in a press release. bit.ly/1gitkx0
#nhpolitics #nhgopclowncar - 20 May

https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https://twitter.com/SolidGraniteNH/status/468745597986430978&t=1&sig=b2c76865d64209b746d062d027f59ce80088de2e&iid=3db28dfca7d04ecf8468104323d04665&uid=23290631&nid=4+1262


LOL The @NHGOP tent is not big enough for @AndyMartinUSA? Some polls have him tied at 11% with Smith against Brown @susanthe #nhpolitics









No comments:

Post a Comment