Random? Not Very Likely!

[Unclebill]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/archives/2000/nov/10/511018638.html?tom+carroll

Statistics point to more than random error in Florida vote

By Jace Radke
<jace@lasvegassun.com>LAS VEGAS SUN
At one in 49 million, the chances of hitting Megabucks on one spin are slim, but not as slim as the odds that Vice President Al Gore would make up as much ground as he has in the Florida recount, according to a UNLV study. ...

The link above gets you to the full article.

 

[Laurel]

I agree - it's not random. This should help explain it:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/18/seminole.county/index.html

Court considers charge of election irregularities in Seminole County

The Seminole County suit contends County Elections Supervisor Sandy Goard allowed Republican activists to write registration numbers on 4,700 absentee ballot requests, nearly all of them from registered Republicans.

The suit said the ballots should be disallowed because only the voters themselves were supposed to have written their registration numbers.

The suit asks that the absentee ballots stemming from the requests be invalidated or, if they cannot be identified, that all of the county's 15,000 absentee ballots be invalidated.

If the suit prevails, Al Gore would likely gain several thousand additional votes, perhaps more than enough to overtake George W. Bush. Goard has denied contacting Republicans about the missing numbers.

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It's nice to have the Governor as your brother, ain't it?

 

[Bobtoad777]

would it not have been easier to throw out all the votes and then have a fresh election in florida?

 

[Unclebill]

Another Interesting Development

The point of the statistical probability is what is evident from the hand manipulations and the court rulings about being able to count 'hanging chad', 'pregnant chad', 'dimpled chad' and such to 'find' more votes for Gore and to 'interpret the intent' of the voter as having wanted to vote for Gore.

I also caught on a news broadcast today (one of those rare times I actually watched one) that the Florida counties in question have further modified and relaxed the ballot hand count procedures improving the probability of more votes being counted for Gore. This is looking more and more like elections in the Soviet Union than America.

I'm sure this turn of events has nothing to do with the fact that these counties' ballot procedures and hand counting is completely under control of Democrats. After all, Richard Daley was from Chicago, not Florida. Right?

And another interesting site I stumbled onto via a search which gives some insight to Gore's philosophy evidenced in his 'Earth in the Balance' work.

http://www.hotyellow98.com/maui/GAIA.html

[Edited by Unclebill on 11-19-2000 at 05:57 PM]

 

[Unclebill]

The recount/manufacture of Gore votes goes on ...

This link give some insight into the recount process and clarifies the intent fairly well. Isn't integrity an admirable thing?
http://www.drudgereport.com/bro.htm

 

[Bobtoad777]

OMG I cant believe that its getting away with that sort of actions

 

[Guest]

The Drudge Report? That's your source?

"While opportunism isn’t new in U.S. politics, never did so many in one family extract so many dollars from taxpayers as when George Bush senior was president a decade ago. As documented here: http://www.campaignwatch.org/details.htm from impeccable cited sources, the exploits of six Bushes, including George W., range from stock sales that were probed or sanctioned to arranging U.S. business investments for a Japanese Mob front. They range from lobbying for a Mafia-linked businessman that enabled massive Medicare fraud to misconduct that helped trigger S&L collapses costing taxpayers $1.2 billion."

Anyone who thinks that orchestrated Republican voter fraud isn't possible in Florida isn't playing with a full deck.

 

[Guest]

This was reported by that right-wing organ, the Wall Street Journal. Not a pretty picture:
http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve.cgi?id=SB975279431548753691.djm

It's a pay-to-view site so I'll clip some here:

"When outraged Republicans raised a ruckus outside the Miami-Dade County elections office last week, some protesters at the door weren't local citizens. They were Capitol Hill aides on all-expenses paid trips, courtesy of the Bush campaign. Right up front on television images of the event last Wednesday were Thomas Pyle, an aide to GOP Rep. Tom DeLay, and Michael Murphy, who works for a DeLay fund-raising committee. Doug Heye from California Rep. Richard Pombo's office also was in the fray....Behind the rowdy rallies in South Florida this past weekend was a well-organized effort by Republican operatives to entice supporters to South Florida....The biggest contingent appears to have hailed from within the marbled walls of the Capitol complex in Washington....
"In Washington, several GOP aides say the office of Mr. DeLay, the House Republican whip, took charge of the effort on Capitol Hill, passing on an offer many staffers couldn't refuse: free air fare, accommodations and food in the Sunshine State -- all paid for by the Bush campaign. Aides who accepted took advantage of liberal congressional workplace rules that allow them to jump from government jobs to political tasks at a moment's notice by declaring themselves on vacation or temporary leave. "Once word leaked out, everybody wanted in," says one GOP operative involved in the effort. Participants estimate that more than 200 staffers signed on, some spending more than a week in South Florida. Many stayed in Hiltons by the beach and received $30 a day for food, as well as an invitation to an exclusive Thanksgiving Day party in Fort Lauderdale....

"Staffers who joined the effort say there has been an air of mystery to the operation. "To tell you the truth, nobody knows who is calling the shots," says one aide. Many nights, often very late, a memo is slipped underneath the hotel-room doors outlining coming events. On Friday night, one aide received notice that he and his colleagues were welcome to stay in South Florida until "further notice." Bush supporters sometimes outnumbered Gore backers by 10 to one outside the Broward County Courthouse in the Democrat-leaning community. A block to the north, a recreational vehicle festooned with Bush-Cheney signs served as operation central, having recently been transferred from similar duty in Miami....[GOP] camaraderie was on full display at the glitzy Thanksgiving night party featuring free food and libations at the Hyatt on Pier 66 in Fort Lauderdale -- "a festive family mood," says one protester. Entertainer Wayne Newton crooned the song "Danke Schoen," until a group of frenzied female fans rushed the stage. The night's highlight was a conference call from Mr. Bush and running mate Dick Cheney, which included joking references by both running mates to the incident in Miami."