[lbo-talk] Evidence of possible hacking the vote

[JBrown72073 at cs.com]

>One of the people involved in Dopp's analysis noted that it may be 
>possible to determine the validity of the "rural Democrat" theory by 
>comparing Florida's white rural counties to those of Pennsylvania, 
>another swing state but one that went for Kerry, as the exit polls there
>predicted. Interestingly, the Pennsylvania analysis, available at 
>http://ustogether.org/election04/PA_vote_patt.htm, doesn't show the same
>kind of swings as does Florida, lending credence to the possibility of
>problems in Florida.

Of course, they could also just count the freaking ballots.  These Florida 
counties all use mark sense optical scan machines with paper ballots, and we do 
have a strong open public records law here.  That's how the press was able to 
eventually count the 2000 ballots in Florida.


>Even more significantly, Dopp had first run the analysis while filtering
>out smaller (rural) counties, and still found that the only variable 
>that accounted for a swing toward Republican voting was the use of 
>optical-scan machines, whereas counties with touch-screen machines 
>generally didn't swing - regardless of size.

All the Democratic counties in Fla. are more urban with the exception of a 
couple of blackbelt counties like Gadsden (just outside Tallahassee).  They're 
bigger.  They're more likely to have touchscreen voting because they were more 
attractive customers for the manufacturers of these machines.

I think they stole the vote here and in Ohio, mostly through boring methods 
like refusing people's registrations and making sure Democratic precincts had 
only a few voting machines.  And yes, there are some very wierd numbers coming 
out of Ohio.  But if they want to test this rural counties thesis they could 
file a public records request and look at the ballots.

Jenny Brown