Update 11/08/04 – Turns out
it’s on the White House site. There’s also a transcription. But, of course, who knows if either one is accurate. I’d feel better if one of you had a copy. (Transcription included in “More” section.)
I didn’t get it and many are asking for it.
I’ll be happy to host it.
thanks,
lisa
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Serious Numbers Comparison Between The Results From Electronic and Optical Voting Machines In Florida
Well, I said I wanted numbers. Here are a lot of them. Now I’ve got to figure out what all this means. (Yes, I’ll update this post.)
Looks like the Repubs have done particularly well in the E-voting districts.
What a surprise.
There are also a number of other links with different perspectives of looking at the data towards the bottom of the page.
Surprising Pattern of Florida’s Election Results
Look at the Percent Change columns
Explanation, Sources, and Graphical Plots are Below the Chart
by Kathy Dopp, kathy@directell.com, Wednesday November 3, 2004
Exit Polls vs. “Actual Results”
I meant to put this up Wednesday. It’s from November 3, 2004.
Exit polls and
Meanwhile, A Little Reminder Of Typical Shrub Administration Tactics: Prisoner AbuseAbuse Of Our Own Soldiers Within Military Prisons
I’m taping the 60 Minutes Episode right now. I’ll have it up tomorrow sometime.Here’s the video.
Abuses found at military prison
By Carol Rosenberg, Free Press Foreign Correspondent for the Detroit Free Press.
CBS’s “60 Minutes II” aired a report featuring Spec. Sean Baker, a Kentucky National Guardsman, who said he suffered brain damage while being manhandled by fellow Guantanamo guards during a rehearsal for the forced removal of prisoners from cells.
Baker describes confusion in the drill, during which he acted as a prisoner and wore a jumpsuit, over whether he was a real prisoner and argues that he escaped worse injury by persuading guards that he was a fellow soldier.
Had it been a real prisoner, Baker said in the show, “I think they would have busted him up.
“I’ve seen detainees come outta there with blood on ’em. If there wasn’t someone to say, ‘I’m a U.S. soldier,’ if you were speaking Arabic or Pashto or Urdu or some other language in the camp, we may never know what would have happened to that individual.”
The two most curious cases outlined in the report involved interrogations in April 2003.
Officers discovered a prisoner had bruises on his knees after an interrogator used a so-called fear-up/harsh technique by directing military police to repeatedly bring the prisoner from a standing to a prone position and back, according to the report.
Pentagon officials disclosed the interrogation technique in the aftermath of the abuses in Iraq. They said it was briefly used at Guantanamo Bay.
A Ton O’ Voting Irregularities In The South = Mass Voter Disenfranchisement
Don’t worry Shrub, most of the disenfranchised don’t have the money or resources to sue the government properly.
Group Finds Voting Irregularities in South
By Doug Gross, Associated Press Writer.
A national voting rights group said Friday it documented hundreds of voting irregularities affecting poor and minority voters in seven Southern states
Another North Carolina Software Glitch
This is ANOTHER instance of the President getting more votes than were possible. (
Here’s the other one I’ve blogged so far.)
Election problems due to a software glitch
By Sue Book for the Sun Journal.
A systems software glitch in Craven County’s electronic voting equipment is being blamed for a vote miscount that, when corrected, changed the outcome of at least one race in Tuesday’s election.
Then, in the rush to make right the miscalculation that swelled the number of votes for president here by 11,283 more votes than the total number cast, a human mistake further delayed accurate totals for the 40,534 who voted.
The glitch occurred Tuesday night as absentee ballot totals for one-stop early voting at three Craven County locations and ballots mailed-in were being entered, said Tiffiney Miller, Craven County Board of Elections director.
The Elections Systems and Software equipment had downloaded voting information from nine of the county’s 26 precincts and as the absentee ballots were added, the precinct totals were added a second time. Precincts affected were Havelock East, Havelock West, River Bend, Cove City, Ernul, Fort Totten, Grover C. Fields, Glenburnie and West New Bern.
An override, like those occurring when one attempts to save a computer file that already exists, is supposed to prevent double counting, but did not function correctly, Miller said.
“I have redone every (personal electronic ballot) completely and am adding the absentees,” she said early Thursday. “Every precinct was redone.”
The second set of incorrect numbers came when the total for one of the batches of absentee ballots was not included in the first manual recount.
“That’s why we have a week before the votes are official, so if we do find problems we can get them straight before the votes are certified,” said Miller, who was in her office before 8 a.m. Thursday, hand-crunching the numbers retrieved from the voting machines.
High School Students Stage Protest Direction Of The Country
Hmmm. Seems like these kids understand the direction of the country perfectly.
Worried students spend night in school to protest direction of country
By P. Soloman Banda for the Associated Press.
At least 85 students worried about war, a return of the draft and the future of the environment staged an overnight protest in the Boulder High School library before leaving peacefully Friday morning.
The students said they wanted assurances from political leaders about the direction of the country. Rep. Mark Udall, D-Colo., met with some of the students for about an hour after they left the library at 7 a.m.
”We’re worried that in four years we’re going to be at war with five countries and we’re going to have no trees,” senior Cameron Ely-Murdock said.
”I know that’s an extreme position, but I’m really worried about the draft,” he said.
CNN Changed Their Exit Poll Data In The Middle Of The Night
Another Article From The Associated Press On The Ohio Situation – 3,893 Extra Votes For Bush
We likes to be thorough 🙂
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E-Voting Machine Errors Starting To Pour In — This Time It’s 3,893 “Extra” Votes For Bush In Ohio
I know it’s only 3,893 “extra” votes, but if this kind of thing happened enough times, it would make quite a big difference.
Time to get our calculators out and start doing the math guys. According to this article, Kerry “lost” by 136,000 votes. 3,893 divides into 136,000 around 35 times. There are 88 counties in Ohio. That means this kind of error would only have to take place in less than half of them to provide Bush with a winning result.
One thing I’m wondering is: are there even enough Repubs registered to cast the votes they are claiming to be cast? Or are we supposed to believe that some Democrats voted for Bush? Help me out here guys! Or send me the numbers and I’m happy to do the math myself.
Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Ohio Votes
By John McCarthy for the Associated Press.
An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said. Franklin County’s unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry’s 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. Bush’s total should have been recorded as 365…
Bush won the state by more than 136,000 votes, according to unofficial results, and Kerry conceded the election on Wednesday after saying that 155,000 provisional ballots yet to be counted in Ohio would not change the result…
Kimball Brace, president of the consulting firm Election Data Services, said it’s possible the fault lies with the software that tallies the votes from individual cartridges rather than the machines or the cartridges themselves.
Either way, he said, such tallying software ought to have a way to ensure that the totals don’t exceed the number of voters.
County officials did not return calls seeking details.
Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, told The Columbus Dispatch that on one of the three machines at that precinct, a malfunction occurred when its cartridge was plugged into a reader and generated a faulty number. He could not explain how the malfunction occurred.
Damschroder said people who had seen poll results on the election board’s Web site called to point out the discrepancy. The error would have been discovered when the official count for the election is performed later this month, he said…
Other electronic machines used in Ohio do not use the type of computer cartridge involved in the error, state officials say.
But in Perry County, a punch-card system reported about 75 more votes than there are voters in one precinct. Workers tried to cancel the count when the tabulator broke down midway through, but the machine instead double-counted an unknown number in the first batch. The mistake will be corrected, officials say.