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Think of it a "Recall" election.
Since Democrats always seem to lose those too.

Would be interesting to see data from 2004, 2000, 1996, etc for these precincts showing anamolies. We should see the same trends by precincts if this can be explained in a manner other than fraud.

If these trends did not exist in 2004, but they do in 2008, for example, then there is clear fraud.

2004 in ohio was very strange. Weird result followed by disappearing logs.

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2005/08/0080696

(note to rw dimbulbs: that's right, ignore the facts, it's just whiny liberals getting ready to lose)

Not to mention that the vote count was unusually far off from exit polls.
(IEM had Kerry over 90% chance of winning - brifly - based on exit polls)

I hope the rethuglicans have better control of the people doing exit polls this time, if they are going to try to pull another 2004 in Ohio.

The truth is I'm hopeful, but the fact that the election is close does make it more stealable, and yes, dimbulbs, thank your lucky stars that there are scumbags on your side that are willing to cheat to prevent the scary socialist from having another term.

marcus says

thank your lucky stars that there are scumbags on your side that are willing to cheat to prevent the scary socialist from having another term.

Hail to the Mother!

obviously Barlow didn't even read the pdf...as the last paragraph states:

This is not a large conspiracy involving a complex network of perpetrators. Such an alleged election fraud could be accomplished by only a single, highly clever computer programmer with access to voting machine
software updates.

I really like the author's transparency on how to replicate the results yourself. If you don't believe that the results are correct, you're encouraged to replicate the results yourself with your own tools.

Personally, I think there is some corruption going on and I'm of neither party. The pursuit of profit and power has no limits...and when one party has sided with corporations whose primary purpose is the pursuit of profit and power...it seems a compelling argument that that side will be the most corrupt.

absolute power corrupts absolutely

marcus says

have better control of the people doing exit polls this time,

Because we already know how accurate exit polls are...

zzyzzx says

marcus says

have better control of the people doing exit polls this time,

Because we already know how accurate exit polls are...

Is that the latest right wing myth, prepping for the eventual obscuration onslaught, that exit polls are inaccurate? Exit polls have been an accepted method of guaging elections internationally for ever. But ah, never mind.

Meanwhile, clear evidence of vote tampering is being presented right in front of your face and you sneer at it because it happens to work in your favor, yeah, I get it.

No one is talking about Florida much because it's minuscule, who cares; some random mailouts to a few people. But heres another issue I don't hear you talking about: a vote registration worker was witnessed and caught and charged by police with dumping bags of voter registration cards into dumpsters. This is a felony. But the worker is a republican staffer and the attorney general of the state, gosh, a republican, decides he won't Persue the case. Big shock.

You're not worried about voter fraud because basically that's all you guys have left. I get it.

Well gee all the more reason to open source the software and nationalize and regulate the voting machine process, huh?

Any way, to the point of your comment, you give us one hearsay example, the paper cited gives thousands of documented examples with info on where to get the info and on how to reproduce their processes.

kentm says

Well gee all the more reason to open source the software and nationalize and regulate the voting machine process, huh?

IT's the fact that we don't have this, and that we don't have reasonable financing rules for elections, and that we have the citizens united result, that should make any halfway intelligent halfway sane person terrified about our trajectory as a country.

Instead we get a bunch of propaganda and a gradual loss of many of the things that made this country great.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/27/gop-rigging-elections-for-romney/

Using this electronic trail, it is possible to reconstruct the actual vote tallies, and therefore determine how many votes were shifted. You can see how vote counts were subtracted from several candidates and then added to the chosen one–Mitt Romney’s–tally:

Examining the final vote tally, it is clear: Romney did not win the Republican nomination at all.

He had lost the nomination to Rick Santorum. Romney is now in a position where he can never know if he could have won honestly, because the entire race has been dishonest from the beginning. Even if Mitt Romney is declared the winner on Election Day in November, and even if vote counts seem to back that up (at least before the results are examined for more of this vote fraud and outright theft), his administration should forever be considered illegitimate.