Rich Lowry shoots down several conspiracy theories including voting machine errors (caught and corrected as part of the normal process), provisional ballots (similar percentage as in 2000), and spoiled punch cards (less spoiled in 2004 than in 2000), but my favorite is the following:
William A. Anthony Jr. is an unlikely candidate to help steal an election for President Bush. But that is what he's essentially being accused of by a band of left-wing conspiracy theorists who can't accept the idea that John Kerry lost the state of Ohio -- and the election -- fair and square.If I were convinced that a $1.5M recount would convince everyone that the results were fair, it might even be worth it. The reality is, no one who is unconvinced now will be convinced even after the recount.
The conspiracy theorists focus on Franklin County, home of the heavily Democratic city of Columbus. They allege, among other things, that long lines there on Election Day were a cagey tactic to keep blacks from voting. It just happens that Anthony is chairman of the Franklin County Board of Elections and also chairman of the Franklin County Democratic Party. "I am a black man," he told The Columbus Dispatch. "Why would I sit there and disenfranchise voters in my own community?" Good question.
\\If I were convinced that a $1.5M recount would convince everyone that the results were fair, it might even be worth it. The reality is, no one who is unconvinced now will be convinced even after the recount.//
ReplyDeleteWhat a GREAT reason for not verifing the vote count! What are you afraid of?
Evidently the neocons have NO problem pourng 64 million into others elections to insure democracy.
but recount in the US?
Just trust us.
This makes sense how?
Exit polls in Ukraine FUNDED by US
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has spent more than $65 million in the past two years to aid political organizations in Ukraine, paying to bring opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko to meet U.S. leaders and helping to underwrite exit polls indicating he won last month's disputed runoff election.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&u=/ap/20041210/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_ukraine_election&printer=1
Was it hacked?
How do we know the fix was in? Keefer says the total number of respondents at 9 p.m. was well over 13,000 and at 1:36 a.m. it had risen less than 3 percent – to 13,531 total respondents. Given the small increase in respondents, this 5 percent swing to Bush is mathematically impossible. In Florida, at 8:40 p.m., exit polls showed a near dead heat but the final exit poll update at 1:01 a.m. gave Bush a 4 percent lead. This swing was mathematically impossible, because there were only 16 more respondents in the final tally than in the earlier one.
Kerry's victory was predicted by previously extremely accurate Harris and Zogby exit polls, by the formerly infallible 50 percent rule (an incumbent with less than 50 percent in the exit polls always loses; Bush had 47 percent – requiring him to capture an improbable 80 percent of the undecideds to win) and by the Incumbent Rule (undecideds break for the challenger, as exit polls showed they did by a large margin this time).
http://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/Story.asp?ID=4688
So exit polls are accurate in Ukraine, but not the US?!
Explain please.