Re: Computer "glitches" favoring Republicans

[Carolab]

Cross-post.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=36304&mesg_id=36304

[papau]

1. Excellent discussion-DUer Skid's data from his post"confirms"the assertion

skids Mon Jan-02-06 09:19 PM

19. Perhaps.
There were a smattering of EIRS incidents that favored Dems that I found
(#s 033761,047650,045200,055744,048034,043856,033761,055744 plus a few probably in minor races where I didn't know the parties of the candidates by name) -- half of those listed were in minor races and/or involved the machine forcing a vote where an undervote was desired. I looked a few of them up and hadn't found any Diebold among the ones I did.

That's compared to hundreds of incidents favoring Republicans.

I mean unless you count the 3rd party combined ballot squashing in NY where the 3rd parties that endorsed Kerry were not allowed to pick up votes on their line because the machines were broken. That didn't affect Republicans at all though (and they have no reason to complain considering republican lines were moving a whole lot faster due to some of the lever machines being stuck on full ticket Republican voting so they were letting people who wanted to vote that way use them, in order to speed things up.)

This was all very well blogged and such a while back. I still have the list of EIRS vote swapping broken down by state with incident numbers for 2004, if it's fallen into the memory sinkhole, if anyone wants it PM me. Might be best if you included email because it's a text file that garbles up on webpages.

[Hello_Kitty]

2. "Stuck" on full-ticket Republican voting?!?!?

Wonder how often it happened the other way...Those machines shouldn't have been used regardless. Some Repub voters who had considered voting for a Dem might have opted for that machine because they'd been waiting a long time and wanted to be done. Gee, ya think that might have been, oh I don't know, deliberate or something?

[papau]

3. US media will not discuss GOP election theft - not even as a "possible"

Indeed the latest crap I am getting is the even if some bad things happened, and they all favored Bush, and even if the bad things were the cause of each GOP/Bush "victory", there is no proof the Bush asked that those bad things be done - and we know that election theft is as American as apple pie.

After banging head against wall, I drink some tea and go to bed.

Without a media, there will be no democracy in America.

[raysr]

4. What luck, huh?

It's just that God is on their side.

[Cocoa]

5. there was some kind of glitch in Virginia

we were all following the numbers here at DU, and there was a sudden surge in Kaine (dem) votes. It was very easily explainable, I think someone posting the numbers posted one candidate's numbers to the wrong candidate and it was switched back to the right candidate, or something like that.

[Cocoa]

6. a glitch favored Bush's opponent in the 2002 California primary

didn't benefit the dems directly, but it favored Bush's candidate's opponent in the primary, and the dem Davis went on to win the general election.