In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
ahem!... One moment... there... right... got it. There, now with my tin foil hat properly in place I'd like to tell ya something.
Florida is this election's Florida
(or how Saint Ralph is trying to redeem himself)
Now things are getting more interesting.
Ohio is getting a lot of news now as the strangest of bedfellows (the libertarian and green parties) have gotten together and demanded a recount. Now of course they have to pay for it. If you want to help them you can go to The Green Party's Presidential recount page to donate, or if you are a conservative who just hates what Bush is doing to your nation and to the conservative agenda and thus can't stomach donating to the Green party, you can go to the Libertarian candidate's page.
So all eyes will be directed to the abundant weirdness of Ohio. Some of the issues of election night can't be undone (as to why in heavily populate precincts with a high proportion of African Americans there was only one or two voting machines (thus giving us the infamous 5, 7, even 9 hour waits), while more sparsely populate "white" areas had more then enough machines (no wait... or just a few minutes)). Nothing can be done for those situations save for improving the situation next time (wasn't there already a war about giving African Americans the right to vote? (not to even mention the civil rights movement)). There are other things in Ohio that could change the numbers (maybe not the results... but it is definitely closer then what we are hearing).
But I think the big news is the flanking maneuver being implemented by none other then Ralph Nader. Nader is demanding a recount in New Hampshire of all places (a state Kerry one). He's specifically wanting recounts in relatively urban areas that voted much more heavily for Bush this time then last time. Here is where it gets really interesting. These areas voted with the Diebold optical scanners, and a recount would be done by humans.
Where else were Diebold optical scanners used... why in Florida, specifically in those counties where Bush won handedly, in fact getting much more votes then Republican voters. Now that could be legitimate... it is Dixiecrat land, but depending on what happens in the New Hampshire recount... something else may be revealed.
Which leaves us to today's "election fraud?" round up:
- Now this isn't a big number but a paperless voting machine in Texas refused to give the results of 63 votes... it just didn't want to spill the beans. Even the manufacturer (one Diebold Election Systems) couldn't get the machines to work. In the end the votes are going to Canada in attempt to get them to count.
Some citizens are wanting to go to Canada because of the election result, well now we're learning our actual results are going to Canada. This is beyond pathetic.
Information from Put It on Paper: Election snafu points up problems for all-electronic voting.
- And from Indiana: Glitch causes Franklin Co. recount
BROOKVILLE, Ind. - Election equipment counted straight-party votes for Democratic candidates as Libertarian votes, an error that could affect election outcomes in as many as nine counties, the Richmond Palladium-Item reported today.No they weren't Diebold machines.
Democrats discovered the error in Franklin County, where ballots will be counted again tonight.
- All of this has been great for statisticians, people generally not invited to many parties. Well now it is their hour, and they are playing it to the hilt.
The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy (pdf)The likelihood of any two of these statistical anomalies occurring together is on the order of one-in-a-million. The odds against all three occurring together are 250 million to one. As much as we can say in social science that something is impossible, it is impossible that the discrepancies between predicted and actual vote counts in the three critical battleground states of the 2004 election could have been due to chance or random error.
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