Have any voting discrepancies gone Kerry's way?

[Poiuyt]

With all the errors that are being reported about the 2004 election, I would think that some errors would help Bush and some errors would help Kerry. So far, all I've been hearing about are the discrepancies which have gone Bush's way. Has anyone heard about any that have helped Kerry?

[Cobalt Violet]

1. I haven't heard of any irregularities helping Kerry.

:-(

[shelley806]

2. All that I've heard of so far have favored B*...and the odds of that?

Probably also 1 in 250 million!

[ClassWarrior]

3. kicking - anyone know for sure?

:kick:

NGU.

[kitp]

4. Yes

I cannot remember where I read it (checking all of the links at my site) but I think it was an article in which a New Mexico poll worker was talking about people selecting Kerry on the touch screen and it selecting Bush instead AND people selecting Bush and the screen showing Kerry as selected.

Other than that, I have heard nothing.

I will keep checking and see if I can find the article.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. I thought I read somewhere that they found something like

98.8% were mistakes that favored Bush. The others favored Kerry and other candidates.

[CementDude]

6. Well, not many here are looking for 'em!

I mean, c'mon.. We're motivated to scour the results for stuff to HELP - not hurt - Kerry.

If the tables were turned (meaning Kerry won Ohio on 11/2), then it be the Repubs looking - and probably finding - stuff to gripe about.

That's a little unreported fact about this whole post-election mess. Sorta like a dirty secret.

(BTW, DON'T TELL ANYONE!)

[Eloriel]

7. Well why don't you go scour for them?

I'd be very interested in how many you find.

[CementDude]

8. Why would I look?

I'm interested in Kerry's chances of winning this thing. I hardly have enough time for that.

Anyone who is looking for pro-Repub discrepancies isn't on this team!

[kerry2win]

13. well there wasthat one time that

the exit polls favored bush at 9pm by 3% over Kerry ...no thats not it and then there was the time when bush led ohio by 5% toward polls closing ....no thats not right but then there was the time bush had the exit poll lead by 3% in florida at polls close ...no aw schucks I can't remember

[BlueDog2u]

9. I'd be interested too....

So far I've heard one -- count it, one -- story about a machine that ringed up Kerry when the voter pushed Bush. There are dozens, hundreds, maybe thousands of accounts going the other way. All Electronic voting systems manufactured by companies contributing to Bush campaign...Diebold, ESS, both founded with Ahmanson money, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why almost all the "glitches" go one way only.

[neohippie]

14. I have only found one as well

It was on a site called www.votersunite.org

here is a link. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=3417


It was a story about a voter who wanted Bush but kept getting Kerry.

It is pretty extrodinary that if erros were going to occur, for such a large majority, 99.?% to favor one candidate. I would have to say astronomical

[pointsoflight]

12. Yes, and even if they're out there...

...that only solidifies the need for change in the electoral process. We shouldn't be tolerant of problems in either direction.

It's funny, what's the error rate for the banking machines that are made by the same company that makes much of the voting equipment? It's undboutedly miniscule. Why is the standard so much less for the voting equipment?

[senseandsensibility]

10. Since when are the repukes

willing to let anything go? If they had any information about anything that hurt them, they'd be screaming bloody murder. They're the ones that had all those "challengers" at the polls, remember? They know we're onto the fraud, and if they had any evidence of fraud from our side, the media WOULD be covering it for them. Nice of you to keep us informed about the other side of the story though. You seem to be making a habit of it.

[IAMREALITY]

11. Welcome Newbie!! By The Way, You are DEAD Wrong

You couldn't be more wrong. Sure, we are commited to finding the mistakes that favored the shrub, but the fact is we are not the only ones or even the main ones that have reported the errors. Most of the errors have come through the media locally and had nothing to do with partisanship. Secondly, believe me, with the stories hitting the wires so far the repubs are already well involved trying to debunk everything, so believe me, if there were any hidden errors favoring Kerry we would more than be aware of them. So have no doubt, the fact that 99% of the errors favored the shrub is no coincidence, and is not due to us only selectively looking. It is simply because 98% of the errors were due to human fraudulent interaction, where 1% for each side was simply due to harmless human or machine error without intent.

Anyway, welcome to DU.