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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.
This information is interesting to look at:
http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm
I've also heard about how the exit polls were calling it for Kerry in Florida. Can some one please post a link to corresponding hard data for exit polls by various pollsters?
It would be interesting to analyse the exit poll data in conjunction with the data at the link shown above.
Thanks.
He had a majority in both houses of Congress! Plus, most democrats did view him as illegimate.
But if Kerry was put into office after a long battle in Ohio and coming up 3.5 million votes short of a pluarlity, well, then, he'd be a lame duck for sure: less votes than Bush, long court battle, battleground state, and Congress against him. Not a good mix.
I know that it is probably paranoia but I really worry that the results of a fully electronic voting system could be manipulated without our knowledge. Without something material that could be counted, I will always feel some nagging doubt about the results.
But like I said, it is probably paranoia.