I thought Andrew Breitbart is floating the idea that Oscar the Grouch stole NY-23 for Owens, not the e-vote machines!

...that, or Oscar the Grouch works for ACORN!

It's no wonder nobody (who only receive corporate news) knows about the problems with electronic vote tabulation devices.

The corporate fascist media will not investigate or report on electronic vote tabulation devices. Instead they say the elections run smoothly, with only minor glitches. They don't even use proper language. This ain't journalism, it's fascism.

A perfect example of how corporate fascist media blacklists topics, was played out in Sacramento, California last Friday, as the market opened 215 points down (on news of the Dubai bank failure), usually every morning they talk about the market. But out of all the morning news (why do we still call them news?) channels....

Only Channel 3 KCRA had a less than 60 second blip on it.
All the other channels were at malls, or talking up black Friday.

All the other channels had nothing. (Not even in their "lower thirds tickers." )

Channel 10 - No market info
Channel 13 - No Market info
Channel 31 - Skipped Market Info
Channel 40 - Skipped Market Info

Brad,

The "accuracy" of NY levers is a myth.

Here is an intersting DU thread on NY Lever vote counting:
http://www.democraticund...s=203×513744#513941

IN 2004 NY LEVERS HAD THE HIGHEST ERROR RATE (12%) OF ALL VOTING MACHINES.

DRES AND SCANNERS WERE 7%.
HAND COUNTED PAPER BALLOTS WERE THE MOST ACCURATE (2%).
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STATEMENT ON THE PRELIMINARY NATURE OF ELECTION NIGHT TALLIES

The preliminary election “results” reported on election night are just that – preliminary. New York State Election Law requires a complete recanvass of all voting machines and the counting of all valid absentee, affidavit, and military ballots before the election results can be certified. The preliminary election results are produced by a combination of poll workers manually recording the results and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) collecting materials containing these results, compiling them, and entering the information into its computer system for tabulation.

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But what if the recorded machine results are contaminated (e.g. levers stuck at 99 or zero votes)? Are there any redundant paper ballots to prove it? What if the poll workers incorrectly transcribe the results?
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After the polls close on election night, more than 30,000 poll workers transcribe the number of votes for each candidate from the face of the voting machines onto Return of Canvass forms. These poll workers then hand the Return of Canvass sheets to the NYPD Officer assigned to that polling location. The candidates and/or members of their respective campaigns are permitted by law to assign poll watchers to observe and record the preliminary results (see NYS Election Law, Section 9-126).

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Wouldn’t it be preferable to have the results posted at the precinct with the paper ballots secured in a lockbox?
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Here are some facts about NY 2004:

Kerry led the pre-election polls by 51-48%
All pollsters assumed that as the challenger, he would win the majority of the undecided vote.
Gallup allocated 90% of the late undecided vote to Kerry
What does it prove? Nothing. But it’s a VERY red flag

Kerry won the unadjusted state exit poll aggregate (114,000 respondents) by 52-47%
What does it prove? Nothing. But it’s a VERY red flag

Gore won the NY recorded vote by 60-35-5%.
Approximately 75% of returning Nader voters broke for Kerry.
All things being equal, Kerry should have won by 63-36%.
What does it prove? Nothing. But it’s a VERY red flag.

According to Edison-Mitofsky lever machines had the highest WPE (11%) of any machine type.
Kerry had 58% of the Election Day lever vote.
Paper ballots had the lowest (2%) WPE.
Kerry had 66% of the late PAPER BALLOT vote.
What does it prove? Nothing. But it’s a VERY red flag

Kerry won 57-62% of new voters nationwide, depending on the national exit poll timeline.
There were 22-24 million new voters.
There were 1 million new voters in NY.
Kerry probably won 67-72% of new NY voters since he did 10% better in NY than nationally.
That means he had an approximate 400,000 margin in new NY voters over Bush.
Add that to his 50,000 margin in returning Nader voters, he had a 450,000 vote margin going in.
What does it prove? Nothing. But it’s a VERY red flag.

The 12:22am national exit poll indicated that 10% of returning Bush 2000 voters defected to Kerry .
Only 8% of returning Gore voters defected to Bush.
In the implausible scenario that Kerry won 67% of new voters but just 8% of returning Bush voters (he won 10% nationally) Bush needed to win 15% of returning Gore voters In order to match the NY recorded vote. Assumptions are 1) a 5% voter mortality rate, 2) equal 98% Bush/Gore voter turnout , 3) Kerry and Gore had 75% of the uncounted votes total votes cast.
What does it prove? Nothing. But it’s a VERY red flag.

State and national exit polls indicated that Kerry had a 3-6% margin improvement over Gore.
So how did his recorded NY margin decline 7%?
What does it prove? Nothing. But it’s a VERY red flag.

Kerry won the NY Best GEO exit poll by 65-34%.
What does it prove? Nothing. But it’s a VERY red flag.

Kerry won the last 500,000 recorded paper ballot votes by 66-33%.
He won Election Day lever machine recorded vote by 58-41%.
What does it prove? Nothing. But it’s a VERY red flag.

An analysis of changes in NY county vote share from 2000 to 2004 shows a very strong (0.61) correlation between Bush’s percentage gain in county votes and county-size as measured by the recorded vote.
Kerry’s correlation was just 0.07.
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This is strong evidence that the New York Urban Legend that Bush won by increasing his share from 2000 in Urban areas a myth.
What does it prove? Nothing. But it’s a VERY red flag.

The preliminary and Final National Exit Poll showed that Bush’s Urban recorded vote share increased by 9% over 2000 while his rural share declined by 3%.
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What does it prove? Nothing. But it’s a VERY red flag.

The EIRS showed 19 NY levers stuck on Bush, none on Kerry.
What does it prove? Nothing. But it’s a VERY red flag.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe there was no recanvassing of the 2004 NY presidential vote.
Why would they? No one asked for it to be done.
After all, Kerry won the state by 1.3 million votes.
What does it prove? Nothing. But it’s a VERY red flag.

Also from NY... GOP same ol' same ol'...

http://www.ccscoop.com/n...ov/28-dejavu/dejavu.html

Good writing Brad, you pretty much covered it all for the very few wingnuts willing to read instead of listening to AM radio.