Reply #6: Yes, post 20 in that thread does make sense. [View All]

[JackRiddler]

Which doesn't prove it quite - you understand in the atmosphere of fraud potential (a perennial in democracies, and certainly more than ever in the era of Bush and Florida and Diebold), these things should be investigated and settled.

Clinton being in the first position on the ballot and Obama being in the fifth, with Biden second and he and the other former candidates often getting zero votes, it might be a simple case of mistaken attributions of Biden's or Kucinich's zero to Obama in the tabulation. But in that case, in the same precincts, one of the zero candidates should have gotten the Obama votes in the mistaken preliminary tally. That can be tracked down and clarified. (I can also think rogue Clinton partisans would think it funny to pretend they made this mistake, since it looks innocent enough and forgivable when clarified. If all or most of these precincts turn out to be in one neighborhood, that would be an indicator of some kind of organized disruption, or someone's idea of a prank.)

Bloomberg shouldn't mouth off about it - it's on him to use his resources to look into it quietly, and then present the case one way or another. It's hard not to imagine his talk has a political design, and not investigating it leaves it in the air as a cloud for him to exploit.

At least New York doesn't have DREs where the whole thing can be fixed in the programming and no one could prove anything...