In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Time for another election "fraud" round up. Almost all of these posts appeared on The Daily Kos where members there are definitely keeping on top of the issue.
- evidence of machine tampering?
If you recall, several weeks ago there was a story about an authorized person getting access to a computer used for the election in Ohio. The full report is given below, but a few things to note: (a) the person was on the computer that was used to tabulate the votes, (b) the person was working on the computer over the weekend shortly before election day, (c) the person was not authorized to access the computer, (d) the person was not supervised while on the computer, and (e) the person was not even a current employee of ES&S (the software manufacturer), but a former employee.
My question is this. Couldn't one reasonably argue that this is prima facie evidence of machine tampering, which actually shifts the burden of proof over to election officials to prove that there was not fraud? Can't this be used as the basis to supeona the individual who was on the computer? Can't this be used as the basis to take the computer, software, etc. into evidence, and have computer experts look at them?- "Actionable Fraud" and More!
- Found (11/30) : vote aberrations, Ohio
NY Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez told us on Tuesday (yesterday) about unbelievable vote-count spikes for 3rd party candidates in a bunch of African-American neighborhood precincts in Cleveland. The unexplained tallies were uncovered by Gonzalez and his colleague, reporter Larry Cohler-Esses. They found the 3rd-party-count vote surge for: Michael Peroutka (Precinct 4-F ) and Michael Badnarik (4-N ), and similarly for 12 other Cleveland precincts. Example- Kerry 318, Badnarik 163, Bush 21 (precinct 4N). Next example - Kerry 290 , Peroutka 215, Bush 21 (4F). Peroutka is an ultra-conservative.
"That's terrible, I can't believe it," said City Councilman Kenneth Johnson (4th ward rep since 1980) "It's obviously a malfunction with the machines."
The combined 3rd party votes last time around - in 2000 - including Nader was just 8 votes in all for the 2 precincts, F and N.
Look below, these figures are implausible. Gonzalez titles his column "Ohio tally fit for Ukraine" and he wonders if there are vote diversions that may be replicated in other parts of Ohio too. Are these counts symptomatic of something?- Kerry says "huh wha... I coulda been a contender?": Kerry Campaign Files Brief in Ohio
- Which brings us to the Greens having something the Democrats lack: A spine. Read: Campaigns Demand that Court Allow Recount. The Greens are asking for counts in Nevada and New Mexico now... does Kerry have a ManDate?
- And it looks like the media is blinking its eyes, yawning, and realizing there could be a big story here... a local Ukraine if you will. Here from the front Page of the Boston Globe:
In other places, machine undercounting or overcounting of votes was a problem. Several thousand votes were mistakenly double-counted in North Carolina, Ohio, Nebraska, and Washington state. Some votes in other areas were at first credited to the wrong candidates, with one Indiana county, by some quirk, misallocating several hundred votes for Democrats to Libertarians. In Florida, some machines temporarily indicated votes intended for challenger John F. Kerry were for President Bush, and vice versa.
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