Vote Machine Fraud - or Exit Polling Fraud? (vanity)

[jporcus]

There's a lot of talk of vote-machine fraud in Dem circles, i.e., that electronic voting machines gave Bush an advantage by creating votes. "Proof" of this is the discrepency with exit polls, which showed Kerry much stronger in states with e-voting machines. I have no idea whether there is any evidence of this. BUT, let's assume this discrepency exists. Whose to say that it isn't the exit polling that was skewed to produce a favorable result for Kerry, and that it was skewed exactly in states, i.e., states with e-voting machines, that would allow the Dem's conspiracy theory to develop? Isn't the exit poll organization headed by a former CBS head (read, liberal Dem)? Relying on a single organization to do exit polling can reak havoc, as seems to be happening over and over again. Maybe this organization needs to be investigated, big time.

['61 Libertarian]

Here's an article that just became available:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm

In this article, they buildup the idea of a conspiracy. If you read down further,

"One possible explanation for this is the "Dixiecrat" theory, that in Florida white voters (particularly the rural ones) have been registered as Democrats for years, but voting Republican since Reagan. Looking at the 2000 statistics, also available on Dopp's site, there are similar anomalies, although the trends are not as strong as in 2004. But some suggest the 2000 election may have been questionable in Florida, too."

If you look at the cite referrenced in the article (Kathy Dopp's site) the results from 2000 are just the same. Where they using the touch screen machines then?

I lived in Texas for over 20 years. There are many registered Democrats that vote Republican for president. I don't see any clear evidence to support their contentions.

[MohawkDrums]

Well, there's a claim that some voting machine in Ohio had 4,000 votes on it for Bush even though only 600 some odd people are registered to vote there.
Anybody hear of comparable errors in favor of Kerry? My thinking is that a certain number of mistakes (heck, maybe even free-lance fraud) are likely in a given election. These machines really ought to have a paper trail. After reading how easily they could be hacked, I was actually a bit worried that we'd be seeing mysterious chunks of votes for Kerry on Tuesday. Hey, wait a minute... !!

[adamj]

Why not suggest that electronic voting is HARDER to defraud.. which means that the Democrats who normally stuff the paper ballots were unable to with the e-voting machines...