Reply #4: There is no documentation of problems with optical scan in Florida, but [View All]

[berniew1]

there was major manipulation of registrations, absentees, provisionals in optical scan counties- similar to the touch screen counties.

But tabulator results of optical scan systems are as easy to manipulate as in touch screen counties, except that there could be a hand count that would catch this.
And there is no system in Florida to audit or prevent tabulator manipulation.
Hand counts are unlikely and have never been required in Florida. Most recounts are simply machine recounts.

I've seen no conclusive article on the Miami Herald recount. The article and data in the Seattle Times indicated that the recount found significant problems indicating Kerry might have won Florida if similar patterns were true throughout Florida. But the Miami Herald article said that their study showed no significant problems in the DixieCrat optical scan counties.

All 3 county recounts found Kerry should have gotten more votes. One counties difference was 0.3%, but the big question was in Suwanee
County, where the Herald abandoned the recount and did not do a complete recount. The percentages of the precincts sampled could imply that the recount would have resulted in a huge swing to Kerry. But the article didn't indicate which precincts were recounted, as minority precincts in all counties in Florida voted strongly Kerry. Maybe they only sampled the minority pricincts is the reason for the big Kerry swing indicated.

The biggest swing in Florida was in the touch screen counties, where most of the population is. But there were also problems in optical scan counties
http://www.flcv.com/fla04EAS.html
http://www.flcv.com/EIRSFla2.html other counties
http://www.flcv.com/fraudpat.html summary