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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 01:36 AM
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An article in the WSJ from 4 years ago
detailing where the fraud was back then in Florida. Interesting reading for a newbie like me.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=65000726

An excerpt:
"But problems with voting machines--or voters--weren't limited to Democratic counties such as Palm Beach, which not only used punch cards but has a large immigrant and elderly population:

• A Miami Herald survey of 12 Florida counties found that at least 445 felons illegally voted for president, and more than 75% of the voting felons were registered as Democrats. Extrapolated statewide, the Herald said, that would mean 5,000 illegal felon votes. (The survey covered all votes in Palm Beach and Pasco counties, most votes in Duval County and absentee votes only in nine other counties.)

• The Washington Post notes that Duval County, which includes Jacksonville, had 27,000 spoiled ballots (9.23% of its total). The Post says that while Mr. Bush carried Duval with 58% of the vote, the spoiled ballots were concentrated in African-American sections of downtown Jacksonville. True enough, but those precincts have small populations so they don't make up anywhere near a majority of the spoilage. Fully 16,650 of the spoiled votes came in districts Mr. Bush carried by more than 2 to 1. That explains why the Gore people aren't calling for a recount of Duval. In addition, several GOP-leaning counties that used optical scanning machines but tabulated their votes at a central location rather than the precinct itself had spoilage rates that were higher than those in punch-card counties.

• The Washington Post has pointed out that some of the Florida counties with the highest rates of invalidated ballots--Hamilton, Hendry, Lafayette, Gulf--were won by Mr. Bush. Charlotte and Collier counties, which both voted 2 to 1 for Mr. Bush, had 6,500 spoiled ballots."
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