Things that make you go "Hmmmm........."

[unixronin]

Last night, I mentioned to friends having had a dream recently in which I was tallying election votes by precinct, and noticed that in almost every precinct nationwide, Bush had a vote margin ranging from +3% to -5%, except where Diebold voting machines had been used, where he consistently had a margin ranging from +10% to +15%.

This morning, it is asserted that in every state that used E-voting with no paper trail, Bush has an unexplained 5% advantage in actual results as compared to exit polls, while in every state that used E-voting with a paper audit trail, exit polls and actual results match within the margin of error.

Makes you wonder, doesn't it.......?

Update:

dirtynumbangel tells me that the raw data for this can be found at electoral-vote.com.  Look down near the bottom of the front page.  Full results are available in both .xls and .csv format.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Where did you see that?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

As noted in the footnote I just added, I'm still trying to verify sources on this beyond the Democratic Underground, whom I do not consider a reliable source.

[dirtynumbangel.livejournal.com]

Have you also noticed that no major media outlet has picked up on this?

I think we all knew it was a foregone conclusion that Shrub would try to steal the election in any way possible. This time he's doing it before the fact, instead of after.

What saddens me most, however, is that a hefty percentage of Shrub's vote came not from people who wanted to vote for him, but from religious bigots who don't want to catch teh_gay.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Have you also noticed that no major media outlet has picked up on this?

Uh, truth to tell, no ... because we really don't have much access. No TV signal, we don't receive any newspapers, and we lack the bandwidth to keep up with 'Net news outlets because Sprint refuses to replace our corroding phone lines.

What saddens me most, however, is that a hefty percentage of Shrub's vote came not from people who wanted to vote for him, but from religious bigots who don't want to catch teh_gay.

Oh yeah. Quoting from the NEDoD mailing list:

Bush has effectively used gay marriage as the equivalent of saying "Look! A monkey!" to get Americans, especially the rural and Rust-Belt poor, to vote for economic policies that are directly inimical to their own interests.

The anti-gay-marriage initiatives on the ballot in ten states (or was it eleven, I don't recall) also served very effectively as a get-out-the-vote for the "I Hate Fags" contingent.

"uniter not a divider" my ass.