Reply #5: This is very misleading, actually and bad journalism... [View All]

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While I think it entirely possible the vote was hacked, when looking into this story for Raw Story I actually ended up debunking it.

Baker County voted for Bush 2-1 in 2000; and Dole 2-1 in 1996, while still being 70 percent democratic. It's systemic; Florida counties that are largely Democrat often always vote Republican, and by enormous margins. Even before optical scan technology.

Now I'm happy to be debunked. I went into this thinking I was going to write an article about how this proved the election was hacked, but my research has actually found the opposite. Feel free to look through previous years and see if you can find anomalies -- but I really honestly don't think this article should be in LBN -- it's an editorial, regardless.


Check out the previous races county by county and compare them to 2004: http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm (2004)

(previous florida elections archived here): http://election.dos.state.fl.us/elections/resultsarchive/index.asp