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2004 Election Weirdness Continues
I've read dozens of submissions about election anomalies in the last week and they show no sign of slowing so I've decided to post a few of the main ones here to let you all discuss them. The first is the Common Dreams report
that shows that
optically scanned votes have a strange anomoly in florida: the Touchscreen counties roughly matched up to party registration numbers, but optically scanned paper ballot counties showed strangeness like one county where 69.3% registered democrat, but only 28% of them voted for Kerry.
Palm Beach County, Florida logged 88,000 more votes than there were voters;
that machines in LaPorte, Indiana discounted 50,000 voters;
in Columbus, Ohio voting machines gave Bush an extra 4,000 votes;
in Broward County, Florida voting machines were counting backwards;
Lastly,
precincts in New Mexico gave provisional ballots that will never be counted to as many as 10% of all their voters.
It's all a democratic ploy to discredit or dethrone our duly elected Pope. The first rule of the Democratic process is: Do not talk about the Democratic process. The second rule of the Democratic process is: Do not question the Democratic process...
Officials found the software used in Broward can handle only 32,000 votes per precinct. After that, the system starts counting backward.
Rule #1: Do not use signed shorts to count the total number of votes.
I don't trust this government.
I hereby revoke your membership in the tinfoil hat club. The correct phrasing is I don't trust government.
Your statement implies there is/was/will be a government you trust. That thought is just plain scary.
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Secretary of State spokeswoman Jenny Nash said all counties using this system had been told that such problems would occur if a precinct is set up in a way that would allow votes to get above 32,000
Somebody PLEASE tell me that that has nothing to do with 32,000 being close to the maximum value of a signed 16-bit number.
Who writes this software?
Like all pain, suffering is a signal that something isn't right
We're talking about counting ballots. These are macroscopic measurements, and any actual physicist (not a pretend one, like you) should understand that there's no problem at all in measuring things accurately unless they're really tiny and moving really fast. Either you're a liar or the most incompetent physicist ever.
I bet if you got pulled over for speeding you'd try to convince the cop that there's no way he could possibly accurately measure your speed and at the same time know what road you were driving on.
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Your statement implies there is/was/will be a government you trust. That thought is just plain scary.
Yeah, I was going to trust a government that was run solely by me, but that was because I paid myself off...little do I know I'm double crossing myself, and won't really support myself when it comes time to vote.
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Maybe a lot of people -liked- what happened in the Bush administration.
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Hagel's name is circulating as a possible candidate for President in 2008. Don't be surprised if he wins :)
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I hereby revoke your membership in the tinfoil hat club.
Liar, you don't have the power. There's only one member of the Tinfoil Hat Club who holds the power to revoke membership, and he/she would never reveal himself to Them by actually using it.
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I think it's inappropriate to refute his post with such floccinaucinihilipilification.