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Compared to counties with paper ballots, counties with electronic voting machines were significantly more likely to show increases in support for President Bush between 2000 and 2004. This effect cannot be explained by differences between counties in income, number of voters, change in voter turnout, or size of Hispanic/Latino population.

Because the actual vote count doesn't mean anything.

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I find this whole theme very odd, because I followed the Florida count all night, in detail. By midnight I noticed that the percentage margin in any county did not change much as more returns came in.

As soon as we had partial returns from the three big dem counties, I was able to project the state outcome. Bush did slightly better in all three compared to 2000, but he did better everywhere. All the major counties using touch screen machines have democrat majorities. Republican counties were not stupid enough to waste millions of dollars on unnecessary technology that has no backup, no paper trail, and no method for recounting or verification. Paper ballots have all this and cost 1/1,000,000th as much, so to speak.