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November 09, 2004
Irregularities | 11/09 Irregularities roundup

Keith Olbermann devoted 17 minutes to possible voter fraud on his show last night; the video is here.

A 60 Minutes segment on blackboxvoting is here.

There’s a concise, categorized roundup of voter fraud stories here. All of them contain links to media reports.

This post has very many links to other DU posts on voting fraud.

This page discusses possible overvotes in Ohio.

This post discusses 19,000 more votes in Miami County, FL.

This post has something about an elections commisioner in Nevada.

“An Examination of the Florida Elections” has a great deal of charts and graphs and looks like it might contains some useful information, but it seems to lack a summary.

There are lots of links here and here.

And, finally, this from Ohio:

…In a letter dated Oct. 21, Ken Nuss, former deputy director of the Auglaize County Board of Elections, claimed that Joe McGinnis, a former employee of Election Systems and Software (ES&S), the company that provides the voting system in Auglaize County, was on the main computer that is used to create the ballot and compile election results, which would go against election protocol. Nuss claimed in the letter that McGinnis was allowed to use the computer the weekend of Oct. 16.

Nuss, who resigned from his job Oct. 21 after being suspended for a day, was responsible for overseeing the computerized programming of election software, according to his job description. His resignation is effective Nov. 11.

The letter also included allegations that Burklo released a sheet from a petition packet filed by Auglaize County Common Pleas Judge Frederick Pepple last December.

UPDATE: Keith Olbermann discusses the episode of his show referenced above in Electronic voting angst.



Posted by Lonewacko at November 9, 2004 03:36 AM | TrackBack
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The facts are pretty plain: there was an election and Bush won. Kerry, to my complete surprise, did the right thing and conceded.

All this crap is just the sore loser dynamic writ large.

If kerry with his loyal minion of lawyers couldn’t overcome the numbers, all of Keith Olberman’s blather won’t change a thing.

the Left needs to go through some agonizing right now, it’s a damned shame that they seem to be trying to weaken the president in the process.

Posted by: skip [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 9, 2004 10:01 AM

I used to find Olbermann funny. Now, he is no different from any other left-leaning host…bitter and in disbelief. That’s too bad. his show was a nice change of pace once upon a time…

I wish I had been watching his show nightly for the past 2 weeks to document precisely how much time he dedicated to:

>> GOP HQ’s shot-up/ransacked/vandalized/etc.

>> Detroit ballot counters kicking out Republican observers who claimed replacement ballots were being created on the fly.

>> The ‘mysterious’ Pittsburgh GOP HQ election day power outage…while surrounding buildings were unaffected.

>> 20 GOP Get-Out-the-Vote vans with slashed tires 2Nov04 in Milwaukee.

>> the lack of materialization of ‘wide-spread’ GOP minority voter intimidation that was hyped up prior to the election.

>> Philadelphia voting machine controversy…either bunked or even debunked…anything?

>> the gap between John Kerry’s service and the date on his Honorable Discharge & medal citations. Again, anything at all?

Oh, yeah….I’m sorry….O’Donnell settled that one…Liars! Lying liars full of lies in their lying book of lies.

I have a vested interest in the success of MSNBC, yet am losing confidence daily.

The speed, hunger and alacrity of bloggers will spell the demise of Cable News unless they embrace the Blogger’s mentality and step down from that horse. I know of many who don’t even watch the news anymore. They read and have become diggers, miners for information.

Forget the ‘scandals’ of the 2004 Election.

The real news is that The News is not the news, anymore.

The slower among them (CNN, MSNBC, Big 3 and even Fox) to recognize the shift of information flow away from their grasps will be the faster to fall with viewerships too small to generate enough revenue to sustain operations.

The epitaph is written.

Who will be the first to claim it for their own?

…

>>

Posted by: USMC_Vet [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 9, 2004 01:51 PM

What exactly would motivate people not to want to investigate possible problems with the voting process? Isn’t that a foundation of our democracy?

Why wouldn’t people want to see whether those eVoting machines actually work, or whether they can be tampered with? Why wouldn’t people want to investigate what exactly happened in Warren County, Ohio?

Unfortunately, it seems getting the right result is more important to some than making sure that our democracy is not being undermined.

Posted by: Lonewacko [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 9, 2004 02:24 PM

LW, you need to understand the atmosphere in Ohio both on and immediately before the election. Tension was very high, the threat of “poll observers”, lawyers and violence seemed almost palpable.

While you may wish to investigate, to me it’s time for the people of Ohio to take a breath gather some rationality and then roll up their sleeves.

Further, the secretary of state in Ohio, Ken Blackwell is a great guy, look for him in the governor’s mansion soon!

Posted by: skip [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 9, 2004 04:17 PM

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