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Senator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-05 06:44 PM
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18. A bit of speculation "support"
A saw another item of support for my (election night-cursory view of FL returns) speculation on how it was done in Bob Fitrakis's latest fraud/coverup roundup article. Since I'm not one of those who's had their head in the numbers perhaps it was rehash for most of you, but to me it was another small revelation of what I think was perhaps the most important/tangible nefarious activity.

Fitrakis mentions a ChristoFascist college with 186 registrations from the same (business) address; out of which 46 votes were tallied. This dovetails with similar "ghost voter" findings and "overtallies" in other states.

But the crucial factor for numbers crunchers is the role that fraudulent registrations (voted or not) may well play in data analysis.

My hypothesis is that they artificially pumped up registered "R voters" so that pumped up tallies would not be as noticeable. But it also makes such numbers unreliable in general.

This was also buttressed by the anonymous election worker quoted by Fitrakis who revealed that ballot boxes (with log books?) were secreted in a separate area where she feared signatures could have been forged (her suggestion).

The reason to use this method is that it would only be (systematically) detectable by labor intensive comparison of actual people with tallied totals. Something not even the GAO is likely to undertake, even at a spot-check level.

But for our purposes I think it would be of great help to establish it as far as we can, even if only anecdotally because:

  • it allows us to bootstrap onto their similar (but unfounded) accusations that are sure to be higher profile in the Euphemedia (among which are still some who are well aware of the neofascist tactic of "projection")

  • it personifies the fraud by simply saying what people did, and doesn't require any math

  • it is more "believable" in the sense that phony registrations can be accomplished over a long period of time and can be rationalized as a "lesser crime" (shenanigans, gamesmanship, etc)


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