Reply #99: There's BEEN something fishy in NV

[m.standridge]

See the 1987 _World Almanac's_ tally figures for the 1984 election for example:
compare page 275 with 291 under "Nevada".
Reagan: 188,770 (p. 275)
Reagan: 108,770 (p. 291)
This error continues in every issue of _World Alamac_ from 1985 through 1991, on various pages, under "Presidential Election Results". Compare the overall listings (which appear first) with the broken down state listings, which appear last. It was a cool 80,000 Reagan votes, in a state that has long used Sequoia voting, a company in which Sr. Bush has long been a stockholder and sometime employee, even before computers.
A judge Breen was responsible for the recent rejection of a case asking that Judge Clark's ruling allowing disenfranchised voters from the bogus voter-registration drive, to vote, be expanded to the whole state. I've posted elsewhere at DU that perhaps he needs to be apprised of this quick pickup of Reagan votes in NV in '84.
This kind of thing, probably helped keep the media from looking more strongly at the Western states in '84. The Demos subsequently won a lawsuit averring they'd been cost votes by too-early network projections for Reagan nationwide. Such could have cost them western MI (and thereby MI), possibly IL and PA (where there were still long lines), and, who knows, maybe OH (given what we've learned acbout lines there lately). Dukakis' people thought he'd probably carried MD on a recount in '88, but didn't ask for it.
NV has a sizable Italian-American pop for a small Western state.
All this, just to point out, NV probably bears looking at.
It was Plurality for Bush last time, in the official results.
The Greens and Libertarians couldn't afford the recount effort there, so they've given up on it. Too bad the Dems didn't jump in. It's not like the money's not there.