Reply #6: WA (the Red part): "Every vote counts-maybe twice.

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Wow, what a surprise!!! Wonder what took themso long to cover this story. Well, now it’s hitting Washington State, the Red part. Yahoo!!!

Every vote counts-maybe twice

http://www.statesmanexaminer.com/articles/2005/08/24/columns/col03.txt
By Peter Phillips Wednesday, August 24,2005

In the fall of 2001, after an eight-month review of 175,000 Florida ballots never counted in the 2000 election, an analysis by the National Opinion Research Center confirmed that Al Gore actually won Florida. However, coverage of this report was only a small blip in the corporate media after September 11, 2001.

New research compiled by Dr. Dennis Loo with the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, now shows that extensive manipulation of non-paper-trail voting machines also occurred in several states in 2004.

The facts are as follow: In 2004, President Bush far ex-ceeded the 85 percent of registered Florida Republican votes that he got in 2000, receiving more than 100 percent of the registered Republican votes in 47 out of 67 Florida counties, 200 percent of registered Republicans in 15 counties, and over 300 percent of registered Republicans in four counties. Mr. bush managed these remarkable outcomes despite that fact that his share of the crossover votes by registered Democrats in Florida did not increase, and he lost ground among registered Independents, dropping 15 points. We also know that Bush "won" Ohio by 51 percent to 48 percent, but statewide results were not matched by the court-supervised hand count of the 147,400 absentee and provisional ballots in which Kerry received 54.46 percent of the vote. In Cuyahoga County, the number of recorded votes




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