Reply #37: were any polls conducted for the vp candidates? any comparison btw those [View All]

[diva77]

polls and the election results?

How did Dean fare in the non-hand count jurisdictions in 2004? How did other races do in hand count versus nhc counties?

It is not unrealistic to suspect vote switching with the results of the NH primary 2008 -- see article at www.studycaliforniaballots.org

entitled:

Possible Effects of Sequoia Optech Scanners on the Outcome of the 2004
General Election in Santa Fe County, New Mexico
By Judith B. Alter, Ed.D.
Executive Summary

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CONCLUSION
This study suggests that programmed mechanisms in the straight party option contributed to the unpredictable and statistically anomalous voting patterns in the Democratic county of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2004. These programmed mechanisms in the Sequoia Optech scanners were not open to inspection by public officials or any non-Sequoia experts employed by them. Nevertheless, the Sequoia Optech scanners used to count ballots for absentee and early voting appear to have not counted many votes and to have shifted votes in the straight party option from minor party presidential candidates to major party candidates, most likely Bush.
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