The WaPo’s Latest Conspiracy Theory — Kerry Won — Hits the Ether attempts to pour some cold water on the various conspiracy theories. Tenor sample: Even as Sen. John F. Kerry’s campaign is steadfastly refusing to challenge the results of the presidential election, the bloggers and the mortally wounded party loyalists and the spreadsheet-wielding conspiracy theorists are filling the Internet with head-turning allegations.

CBS’s Dem Reps Seek Election Review mentions the letter from Democratic congressmen described here and the “Reagan Democrats,” described here using the “Reagan Difference” as well as ballot spoilage.

Ann Coulter attempts to discredit Keith Olbermann’s reports here. As with other attempts to discredit his reports, the “Reagan Difference” is involved.

The column “Hackers rigging voting machines a real possibility” discusses the questionable reliability of eVoting and has some words for those who want to sweep this issue under the rug.

Curious voting totals in Cuyahoga County Ohio are said to be innocuous in “Cuyahoga board deflates vote suspicions”. Someone who purports to be a former Board of Elections official in that county says he’s examined the data and agrees that while Cuyahoga’s way of representing data is confusing, the numbers do add up.

However, questions (and more questions) remain.

Aaron Brown of CNN reportedly says that one of the problems in Cuyahoga was due to a data input error, which doesn’t fit the other explanation offered by the county.

And, “Ohio honchos are trying to figure out how to suppress the facts” has an unconfirmed and possibly innocent report on a conference call held by elections officials in Ohio.

Also see Losing by 335,000 in N.H., Nader Demands a Recount. Apparently the Green Party will announce their plans for a recount as well.

From “State Police investigating voter fraud”: New Mexico State Police are investigating allegations of voter fraud – including one instance in which an as-of-yet unnamed woman is being connected with up to 200 bogus ballots…

47 State Exit Poll Analysis Confirms Swing Anomaly discusses the exit polls in swing vs. non-swing states.

Links to Keith Olbermann’s 11/10 broadcast on voting irregularities and other broadcasts are here.

And, see the unconfirmed “Al Franken mentioned 20,000 votes wrongfully going to Kerry in N.C.”

(Suggestion: what’s really needed here is some way to organize all these reports and rank them by severity and credibility. So, the problems in Cuyahoga county could be ranked by how many votes might have been affected and by whether the explanation offered holds up to scrutiny. This would require the assistance of impartial experts in political science, statistics, and other fields. That way, unconfirmed reports of two people not being able to vote would sink and verified reports of thousands of votes having been lost would rise. Without something like this, anyone who looks into this is going to soon suffer from information overload.)