"Explicit statistical evidence of massive ballot tampering in Palm Beach, Fl"

reagan.com ^ | REPOST - 09 November, 2000 | Robert A. Cook, PE

[yoe]

"Explicit statistical evidence of massive ballot tampering in Palm Beach, Fl"

"Explicit statistical evidence of massive ballot tampering in Palm Beach, Fl"

Errors only Occurred in Presidential Races?

Editor's Note: The following statistical analysis was sent to me by Robert Cook, PE, a nuclear engineer, with an MS in statistical quality control, a software testing specialist and QA manager, who has a track record for analyzing and correcting trends, errors, and mistakes in heavy construction projects (ships, power plants, nuclear reactors, military and aerospace vehicles, etc. for more than twenty years.

Robert Cook presents here a remarkable statistical analysis of the Palm Beach presidential ballot controversy that deserves serious investigation. He says that the controversial 19,120 Presidential race ballots at issue there were "destroyed by deliberate double-punching ballots in Palm Beach County FL with a 'second punch' for Al Gore or Pat Buchanan. (In 1996, an additional 15,000 Dole and Perot ballots were destroyed by double-punching presidential ballots in Palm Beach County, FL. *)

"It uses simplified but wide-ranging statistical comparisons to establish beyond doubt that democratic operatives "stole" by double-punching ballots approximately 15,000 Bush votes in Palm Beach County; and approximately 3,400 additional Buchanan votes."

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09 November, 2000

By: Robert A. Cook, PE

Ref: Statistical evidence establishes beyond reasonable doubt that 19,120 Presidential race ballots were destroyed by deliberate double-punching ballots in Palm Beach County FL with a "second punch" for Al Gore or Pat Buchanan. (In 1996, an additional 15,000 Dole and Perot ballots were destroyed by double-punching presidential ballots in Palm Beach County, FL. *)

The national error rate of double-punching ballots is less than 1/2 of one percent, or at most, 1800 ballots in all of Palm Beach County, with the errors between all races and all candidates.

19,120 double punched ballots -all in one race, with "errors" only occurring two Presidential races against Republican opposition - is 33,000 "too many" to be an accident.

References:

(*9 Nov, 2000 CNN; Jim Smith, Former Florida Secretary of State; WSJ, 11-10-2000) (San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov 10, 2000, page A-12, Local Figure on Double Voting Only 0.3%; Haas Sees Red Flag in Florida Totals; by Caitlin Rother) (Los Vegas Sun, Nov 10, 2000. Statistics Point To More Than Random Error in Florida Vote; by Jace Radke)

The news media is utterly focused on the Democratic Party spin that voters were "confused" in Palm Beach, FL. They are ignoring the 15,000 Bush and 3,400 Buchanan votes that statistical evidence can show were stolen by fraud in these 19,120 ballots.

There is explicit statistical evidence of massive ballot tampering in Palm Beach FL. These ballots show Democratic voter fraud....NOT Republican fraud or "voter error" as publicized by the national media. Statistical evidence cannot prove any single ballot was tampered with, nor show which individual tampered with any single ballot. It can show specific places and times and methods where the fraud was done. (For example, if 15,000 dollars are missing from the register the day after your cashier left on a Los Vegas vacation, there is no direct evidence that the cashier stole the money. If, however, 19,120 dollars are missing from the register the next year when the cashier again leaves for vacation in Los Vegas, one has reason to investigate the cashier closely.)

Consider these "unusual" ballot problems in Palm Beach, FL - every one of them adds more Gore votes, and removed Republican and Reform party votes.

ONLY Palm Beach County Florida voters seem incapable of understanding and using this style of ballot.

Palm Beach County has an error rate TEN TIMES larger than reported in ANY other county in the nation using paper punch ballots! No information is available about the number of ballots invalidated for previous primary, state, and the 1998 Congressional votes. Unless an equal number (equal proportion of "invalid ballots" per primary voter) of ballots was double-punched in the 1996 primaries, the 1998 primaries, and the 1998 Congressional races ..... the Palm Beach election officials are specifically guilty of deliberate ballot tampering fraud in the year 2000 Presidential elections.)

ONLY in Palm Beach FL were 15,000 ballots "invalidated" (for double punched ballots) in the 1996 Presidential election. (This is almost unique among the entire nation! (Certain central city Democratic precincts in Chicago reported 120,000 double-punched ballots; and Duval County in Florida reported 22,000 double-punched ballots. Neither used the same arrangement of candidates as at Palm Beach. This shows that "lining up" buttons was NOT actually an issue at Palm Beach, but was created as an excuse to blame the symptoms of fraud at Palm Beach.)

One early excuse given to the national news media by Democratic "spokesmen" to explain the Palm Beach fraud was that people were 'exchanging" their double-punched ballots - and were given new ones...If so, over 26 people per minute "were confused" and voted twice for President! This many errors were supposedly made, detected, and corrected (by handing out new ballots) while no person made any "error" in any other race. This excuse would also mean that more voters were being handed new ballots per minute than new voters were being signed in. (19,120 "double punched" Democratic ballots divided by 12 hours, there are fewer than 100 precincts in Palm Beach County where the precinct level returns are suspect . Significantly, the massive number of errors occurred only in a few of the precincts, and all of those precincts were strongly Democratic. In precinct 144F, for example, there was only one "counted" republican voter for president.)

However, the "double-punched" ballots counted in the election were NOT exchanged, and were actually read by the voting machine. They are the symptom and the method of the fraud. There is no reason for this early Democratic Party statement other than that of beginning a cover-up for the double-punched ballots.

Not surprisingly, this early fable was not maintained, and has not be repeated. It also has not been retracted or contradicted by follow-up stories in the national news media.

ONLY in Palm Beach (and in ONLY the most heavily Democratic precincts) were 19,120 ballots rejected in 2000 for double punching....(This is a 4.4% error rate overall; in the rest of Florida there is less than 1/2 of ONE percent "double punch" error rate! (Unofficially, this error rate was 15% in predominately Afro-American precincts, and 10% in precincts with large numbers of Jewish retirees.) In strongly Republican precincts, the error rate was the "usual" 1/2 of one percent.) San Diego County has 800,000 voters, and (overall) has more senior, retired, minority, and new immigrants than does Palm Beach County. Since all of these were represented the 1992, 1996, and 2000 results in the San Diego double count totals, there can be no excuse for "innocent errors" in Palm Beach.

ONLY in Palm Beach did this "double punch" error happen ONLY in the Gore-Bush-Buchanan selections for President. (In a truly random "error," the mistakes happen in every race, all at about the same rate. In Palm Beach, the massive errors (over 19,000) ONLY happened in the Presidential race.)

ONLY in Palm Beach has the news media complained about "massive" ballot confusion. In the 43 counties in.......

[Travis McGee]

With talk radio, the internet, and FOX, the old liberal media monopoly is broken. If Republican pols have the guts, (few do) they can exploit "our" media. But they still want to be loved, and won't.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Concur.

[Robert A Cook PE]

A rushed job, written as new info came in over the nights and afternoon between Tuesday and Thursday.

Also, it should be updated with the info from Harris' book on the election, and include the panhandle votes that were "discouraged" out by the democrat early call for Gore.

The false "40,000 disenfranchised" often cited by black racelords outght be included as the lie that it is.

Other things.

Know an editor?

[Tall_Texan]

There will never be a Democratic "Watergate."

That's not because Republicans don't fight hard enough (although it's true they don't) but because Democrats have no rule of law and are totally shameless.

Bob Livingston resigned rather than judge Clinton when he knew of his own adultery. I could never imagine a Democrat taking that step unless he was up for election and the polls showed he couldn't win. But it's not the sin that shames them, rather the political expediency of not advancing their goal.

Any form of hypocrisy is perfectly allowable if you are a Democrat because the advancement of the ideology is more important than any type of personal consistency.

The Clinton impeachment taught us a lot about Democrats' true principles:

* It's okay to lie under oath if you don't like the charges.
* It's okay to lie under oath if you don't like who's prosecuting you.
* Defending oneself about lying under oath is "saving the Constitution".
* Sexual harassment is not relevant when the powerful "boss" happens to be a Democrat.
* Ideology trumps any type of misconduct up to and including murder (Condit).
* Ideology trumps any type of minority representation (Clarence Thomas and many others).

Any moral "high road" the liberals might have carried before (and it was quite strong in the wake of the racial and sexual re-order that began in the 1960s) was decimated by the Clinton gang. That capital was spent. No longer can the feminists claim the high road after defending Clinton. And the race baiters are close to being in the same boat after the scandals involving Jackson, Sharpton and Mel Reynolds among others. Suddenly the more-correct-than-thou crowd was out there supporting perjury. Then came 2000 and they were out there defending vote fraud.

That's not to imply that Republicans have clean hands in all of this but the oh-so-serious, oh-so-pious, oh-so-concerned Democrats had their act exposed by their own Elmer Gantry and I believe that is no small reason for why their party is in such disarray now.

[gitmo]

If 19,120 is 33,000 too many, then this guy - despite his impressive credentials - needs to go back and take 3rd Grade math over again.

15,000 from '96 plus 19,120 from 2000 minus 1800 it should have been equals 32,320 or roughly 33,000 too many. It makes sense doesn't it?

He either needs to learn simple math or he needs to learn to construct understandable sentences.

[Fresh Wind]

No attention was paid to the incident in the national press beyond this initial report.

Believe it, or not, this item was actually on the ABC news website. Sure didn't stay long, though.

[Blue Collar Christian]

What I like best about this article is that it shows the Dems are still too stupid to win even when they cheat.

[mamaduck]

yoe, my dad who is just an unofficial lurker wondered this:

I thought this item was something really HOT, and we'd soon see the press establishment and the political culture doing interesting stuff with it. Then, I noted that it is more than three years old, and so far as I am aware no one has taken notice of it. Why do you suppose some Freeper chose to recycle it now?

could you enlighten him? TIA

[Travis McGee]

I could do it. I could also set up a private email working group of freepers to go over my edit. And of course you would get the last chop and veto.

[MattAMiller]

I'd like to see the numbers. How many of these double voted ballots would be expected to contain a vote for Bush and how does that compare to what actually turned up?

[Ichneumon]

* Sexual harassment is not relevant when the powerful "boss" happens to be a Democrat. [snip] Any moral "high road" the liberals might have carried before (and it was quite strong in the wake of the racial and sexual re-order that began in the 1960s) was decimated by the Clinton gang. That capital was spent. No longer can the feminists claim the high road after defending Clinton.

I couldn't agree more.

Despite the excesses of the feminist movement, one of its founders, Gloria Steinem, was almost always level-headed and reasonable, at least in her days of highest prominence.

So it was a major shock when she wrote her "one free grope rule" editorial in the middle of the Clinton scandal, explaining that if a boss grabbed an employees breast or dropped his pants and told her to "kiss it", it wasn't worth making a fuss over as long as he accepted "no thanks" as a response...

Truly astounding.

If I ever meet Ms. Steinem, I think I'll grab her breast as my way of saying "hello" -- and then ask her to sign a copy of her essay.

(Speaking of which, does anyone have a copy? I read it in the newspaper when it originally appeared, but haven't found an electronic copy to save in my archives. Maybe the feminists have hunted down all copies and destroyed them. :-) Similarly, I can no longer find any reference to the following quote, which I copied verbatim from an online CNN story the day it was made: "I have to confess it has crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian." -- Hillary Clinton, February 6, 1997. And yes, it was the generic "you", she was not addressing a particular person.)

[Ichneumon]

and include the panhandle votes that were "discouraged" out by the democrat early call for Gore.

...and also discouraged by some news networks falsely announcing that the polls were now closed in Florida, even though they were open in the panhandle for another hour yet (because the panhandle is in a different timezone).

[meatloaf]

Let see. If you add 19,120 + 15,000 you get 34,120. Then subtracting the normal expected error of 1,800 from 34,120 you get 32,320. It's not 33,000 as stated. My guess is the guy did some fast math in his head. If it was me I'd say approximately 30,000 votes.

From my point of view the guy needs a calculator. As for you maybe you need to read it again for comprehension. A rocket you ain't.

[South40]

more voters were being handed new ballots per minute than new voters were being signed in.

Normal dimocRATic politics, to be sure.

[Future Useless Eater]

btt

[maica]

That's not because Republicans don't fight hard enough (although it's true they don't) but because Democrats have no rule of law and are totally shameless.

Not only have they no shame but they can recognize behavior that Should cause shame when committed by a conservative.

Any form of hypocrisy is perfectly allowable if you are a Democrat because the advancement of the ideology is more important than any type of personal consistency.

We understand this much better than we did ten years ago. And yet we still CANNOT over/underestimate how low they can go. We must be alert to all dirty tricks.

Remember the Wellstone Memorial, and trading Torricelli in for Lautenberg?

They have no shame, but a lot of the electorate are turned away by their behavior, which is good news for us and the country.

[XBob]

1 - I remember this excellent analysis by RAC, at the time, and was very impressed.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Thank you.

Hard to find all "copies" out there with this error, but I'll fix it.

[Ciexyz]

"Makes ya sick" bump.