Reply #35: They "knew" days after election that fraud claims were baseless: [View All]

[Helga Scow Stern]

http://macht.arts.cornell.edu/wrm1/commondreams/commondreams.html

From: Walter Mebane <[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:54:35 -0500
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Subject: Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked

To the Editor:

Regarding "Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked," by
Thom Hartmann

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm

Jasjeet Sekhon <[e-mail]>, Jonathan Wand
<[e-mail]> and I <[e-mail]> have looked into the
allegation of vote fraud involving optical scan voting machines in the
2004 presidential election voting in Florida. Based on the data shown
below, we conclude that allegation is baseless. Instead, the pattern
in which counties that have high Democratic registration had high
percentage increases in the vote for Bush reflects the fact that all
those counties have trended strongly Republican over the past twelve
years. The counties are mostly in the Florida Panhandle. Given the
voting history and registration trends, these counties seem to have
many old-style southern Democrats who have not bothered to change
their registration.


(This is from most of the academicians on the panel to the editor of Common Dreams.)