Posted on 11/11/2004 6:54:48 PM PST by txradioguy
Since ABC's Peter Jennings aired a whole host of election fraud conspiracy theories Tuesday night - suggesting that "maybe once again the country got it wrong" in last week's vote - the Canadian-born anchorman will undoubtedly want to interview Howard Troxler, columnist for the St. Petersburg Times.
While Jennings claimed he was performing a "public service" by covering the wild-eyed complaints, it's Troxler who has performed the genuine public service, by delivering the kind of report that ABC should have - but didn't.
Here are some highlights of Troxler's comprehensive analysis in today's Times:
CLAIM: Kerry really won Ohio.
There are still 155,000 or so uncounted provisional and absentee ballots. If by some miracle Kerry got almost all of them, he would win. A miracle. [Bush's Ohio margin of victory was 136,000 votes.]
Furthermore, there also were 93,000 "spoiled" ballots in Ohio that, had they gone to Kerry by a miraculously large margin ... uh, well, still wouldn't have been enough.
CLAIM: A voting machine in Franklin County, Ohio, recorded an extra 3,893 votes for Bush.
This is perfectly true, and one of at least two serious voting machine mistakes around the country. When the results cartridge of an older-generation machine was plugged in to the counter, it reported almost 4,000 extra votes for Bush, when only 638 people had voted in the precinct.
At the risk of being labeled part of the plot, I want to point out that they caught this obvious mistake. You can't "stuff" the ballot box. There is a signed, independent record of how many people voted.
CLAIM: Electronic voting machines in Carteret County, N.C., mysteriously "lost" more than 4,500 votes - most of the votes cast in the county election!
This one is true, too, and disturbing. According to the Carteret County News-Times, the county's machines counted only the first 3,005 votes and didn't count the rest.
The Carteret screwup didn't change the presidential outcome, but a couple of state races were close enough to be affected. Besides, the standard of "no harm, no foul" is not good enough. But I would point out that even this mistake was obvious and immediately detected.
CLAIM: Voting patterns in some Florida counties were suspicious because Bush got many more votes than the number of registered Republicans.
Several impressive-looking charts and graphs are flying around. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann singled out five Florida counties for what he called a "sudden" outbreak of "irregularities": Baker, Dixie, Holmes, Lafayette and Liberty.
In those counties, Republicans make up only 7 to 24 percent of registered voters. But Bush won there with between 64 and 78 percent of the vote.
How can this be? Easy. They are northern "Dixiecrat" counties where being a registered Democrat but voting Republican is an old habit. The same counties voted overwhelmingly for Bush in 2000, and his father in 1988 - when registered Republicans made up as little as 2 percent of the electorate!
That's just the tip of the iceberg of Troxler's analysis. We trust that the folks in elite media will take some time chewing over his full report before they lend any more credence to the kookball complainers who want Kerry to "unconcede" the election.
It gets more enjoyable every day watching the RATS come apart at the seams!
*PING*
PJ - you ahve a special insight into the DUmmies thought patterns, how do you think they'd take hearing the debunking of their crackpot theories?
partisan politics is irrelevant here. we should find the correct result, even though im 99% sure this is bush. there is clearly some large discrepencies in a lot of places and this needs to be checked.
John FUnd tonite on FNC also pointed out that almost HALF of the 150,000 provisional ballots in Ohio that the RATS are so desperately hoping would go their way have been tossed out as illegal ballots.
He also mentioned that in PA there were several "voters" who gave a street address that was also the street address for Veteran's Stadium.
Gee...the MSM has sure been silent about the PROVEN voter fraud comitted by the RATS...but turn around and give legitimacy to the DUmmies crackpot theories about us!
Why am I not surprised?
I agree with you. I'd like to see a recount just to shut up these idiots once and for all. But the fact of the matter is the Rats will NEVER let this rest no matter what kind of proof is given.
it doesnt matter about shutting up idiots, it doesnt matter what side you are on: there appears to be faults in the process and these need to be addressed, whatever the consequence. the true result is the true result. i beleive this is a bush victory, but that matters NOT. the truth is out there!
now let's hear about detroit, philadelphia, chicago and new mexico....
i am 99.9997% sure.
Gee, why didn't Peter check the figures out before rushing on air with crap?
No bias here though.
NM is a non-issue now. John Fund reported on Special Report tonight that the ballot counting is officially over and the President won with a 5,000 vote majority. Mr. Fund also made the comment that Gov. Richardson was insistent that all the ballots get counted in hopes of turning NM to sKerry so he could brag when he made a run for PRESIDENT that he brought home NM for sKerry.
Howard Troxler ping to some of the old crowd who are still around.
I am sooooo happy about that--it's 'superficial', but I absolutely HATED seeing in 2000 that map, with blue NM sticking out like a throbbing sore thumb among all that beautiful red.
thanks for the information. i will drop NM from my list.
my point, however, is that systematic errors that fall in bush's category get caught and fixed, then blared all over msm as though there is a conspiracy. fraudulent voting, on the other hand, has hardly gotten a peep out of most corners of the msm. philadelphia, detroit and chicago have had noted irregularities this election and have been hotbeds of irregularities and fraud for decades.
Now that's funny. I'm happy someone knew what the address was to recognize it.
this uses up our resources and is a non story...... if we keep talk ing about they will and soon it will be a story .... so lets drop all the dysfunctional behavior of the demos... they lost we know it ..... and move on to more pressing issues.....
i dont care what the left does..... we have work to do about all those who did us ...... like rather , msm , sinclair... etc...
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