Updates:
- 11/11: Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting.org tells Randi Rhodes she will do a recount in Florida.
- 11/10 CalTech/MIT Report: On The Discepancy Between Party Registration and Presidential Vote in Florida. This report examines partisan voter registration statistics and the Bush-Kerry vote in Florida counties, and argues that counties with discrepancies between partisan voter registration statistics and presidential voting are those that are closely aligned with the "Dixiecrat" South. (I think this particular issue is pretty much settled.)
- 11/10: Florida judge says Miami-Dade and Broward do not have to count absentee ballots received after Election Day, despite mailing snafus. The number of ballots rejected by this ruling is not reported.
- 11/9: Keith Olberman also thinks the optical scan pattern is suspicious. He also said the Secretary of State stole "a huge stack of [uncounted] absentee ballots" from one county.
- 11/9: Sam Parry discovered Bush's total vote equalled only 85% of registered Republicans in 2000, but exceeded registered Republicans in 2004 by 20,000. In 4 counties, Bush got three times the number of registered Republicans.
How did Jeb and Karl steal Florida in 2004? They rigged the optical scan counters!
Joseph Cannon says "hold everything!"
Example: Baker County. The "actual" Republican vote increased over the expected vote a staggering 220.4% -- while the Democratic vote decreased -68.4%.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," I hear the skeptics saying. "That's just one county. Bush was popular there this year. So what?"
So this: Similarly wild numbers occur in nearly all of the other counties using optical scan ballots. We're talking 52 counties. In case after case, we see Brobdinagian jumps for the Republicans, and decreases -- sometimes drastic decreases -- for the Democrats.
The results are unmistakable. In every "e-vote" county the numbers are much less suspicious. But very suspicious figures cropped up in nearly every one of the optical scan counties. In each case, Republicans -- only Republicans -- reaped rewards...
... If this chart is accurate, we shouldn't just cast a wary eye at the electronic vote. The optical scan vote may be filthy.
Examine the statistical details here:
Here are human reports that might help explain the statistics above:
11/7 Broward: massive problems in Florida's most Democratic county
11/7 Broward machines count backward (that's the Palm Beach Post's headline, not ours!)
Officials found the software used in Broward can handle only 32,000 votes per precinct. After that, the system starts counting backward.
11/5 Palm Beach County Logs 88,000 More Votes Than Voters
According to the official election results posted on the Palm Beach County election website, 542,835 ballots were cast for a presidential candidate while only 454,427 voters turned out for the election (including absentee). This leaves a discrepancy of 88,408 votes cast for the presidential candidates.
Palm Beach County's supervisor of elections is Theresa LePore who is known for the 2000 Presidential Election and the notorious "butterfly ballot" that caused confusion among seniors and other Floridians.
