Reply #4: Nuts

[Filius Nullius]

I think they are just terrified of not being able to prove their case. The problem is that they are confusing investigation with criminal charges or a civil suit. We are not talking about proof beyond a reasonable doubt here or even proof by a preponderance. There just has to be a reasonable basis to believe that a crime may have been committed. The uscountvotes.org report suffices for that. They should embrace it and get on with it. USCountVotes says on its home page <http://uscountvotes.org/>:

"More than 27,000 reports of irregularities in the 2004 election were submitted to the independent 'Election Incident Reporting System'; thousands more were reported to other organizations.

"Unprecedented discrepancies between exit poll results and final tallies in several key states occurred that still have never been explained. It has only recently been officially confirmed (by the exit pollsters themselves) that on election night the final set of exit polls showed John Kerry defeating George Bush by 3% of the popular vote and a clear majority of 316 electoral votes. Our statisticians analyzed Edison/Mitofsky's own explanation of their exit poll discrepancies, and found serious flaws in their argument. Exit polls have been used for years to detect corruption of official vote tallies - most recently in Ukraine."