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Are you sure your |
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My opinion by Crazy
Eddie
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With
all the questions over the vote count in the 2000
presidential election; you would have thought the states
would have gotten it right this time. Most people would have
you believe that the votes were recorded properly this time.
I am not so sure. |
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In the
years and month leading up to the election several groups
were asking for a paper trail where computer voting was
going to be used. Why would anyone be against making sure
that everybody had their vote counted? I can think of only
one reason and that is if you were planning to seal an
election. I know what you are thing; this guy has lost it. |
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Just
bear with me for a minute. Democrats introduced several
bills which would have given voters a paper receipt which
could be used in the event of any problems with electronic
voting machines. The democratic measures were successfully
blocked by the Republicans. It is pretty bad when the
electronic voting machines in Venezuela produce a paper
receipt and the machines in the good ole USA don’t. |
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But there
wasn’t any voting problems this past election. Not so fast,
I am not really sure why the press has not talked more about
the problems that where common all over Ohio and Florida,
the two states which determined the out come of the
election. There was the case in Ohio where in one county
where George Bush received almost 4,000 votes and only 638
people voted. In Palm Beach County Florida 88,000 more votes
were reported than people who voted. In
Broward County the voting
machines started counting backwards after 32,000 votes were
cast. These are just a few examples of voting irregularities
not being reported. Because none of the touch screen
machines did not produce a paper trail there is no way of
knowing the actual vote count.
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There
is one more piece of evidence which cast doubts if the
electronic voting machines worked properly is the exit
polling data. In states which traditional voting machines
were used the exit polling data was accurate, and in the
states where non-verifiable machines were used the exit
polling data was way off. Of course the states which used
the non-verifiable machines included Florida and Ohio. See
the graphics below. |
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The
last polls conducted before the election, along with the
exit polling and the voting irregularities suggest that John
Kerry probably won this election. Unfortunately we will
never know. |
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Do you
think there was voter intimidation in the battle ground
states? |
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Source stories listed below |
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http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=ne-main-9-l1&flok=FF-APO-1110&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20041105%2F1517861083.htm&sc=1110
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http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archives/000715.html
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041105/ap_on_el_pr/voting_problems_4 |
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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/news/epaper/2004/11/05/a29a_BROWVOTE_1105.html
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http://www.michigancityin.com/articles/2004/11/04/news/news02.txt
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