[LINK] [USA] 2004 Election Weirdness Continues

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

Politics: 2004 Election Weirdness Continues
Slashdot
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 08, @02:59PM
from the stuff-to-think-about dept.
http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/04/11/08/1910250.shtml?tid=103&tid=219

I've read dozens of submissions about election anomolies 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 <http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1106-30.htm> that shows that
optically scanned votes have a strange anomoly
<http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm> 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
<http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archives/000715.html>; that
machines in LaPorte, Michigan discounted 50,000 voters
<http://www.michigancityin.com/articles/2004/11/04/news/news02.txt>; in
Columbus, Ohio voting machines gave Bush an extra 4,000 votes
<http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/05/voting.problems.ap/index.html>;
in Broward County, Florida voting machines were counting backwards
<http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/news/epaper/2004/11/05/a29a_BROWVOTE_1105.html>;
Lastly, precincts in New Mexico gave provisional ballots that will never be
counted
<http://www.ansiblegroup.org/furtherleft/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=51>
to as many as 10% of all their voters.

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Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
brd at austarmetro.com.au