Florida Numbers Indicate a huge crossover of Democrats
from Kerry to Bush - but only in counties that used computerized ballot
scanners. [more]
George W. Bush's vote tallies, especially in the key
state of Florida, are so statistically stunning that they border on the
unbelievable. While it's extraordinary for a candidate to get a vote
total that exceeds his party's registration in any voting jurisdiction
-- because of non-voters -- Bush racked up more votes than registered
Republicans in 47 out of 67 counties in Florida. In 15 of those
counties, his vote total more than doubled the number of registered
Republicans and in four counties, Bush more than tripled the number.
Statewide, Bush earned about 20,000 more votes than registered
Republicans. Similar surprising jumps in Bush's
vote tallies across the country -- especially when matched against
national exits polls showing Kerry winning by 51 percent to 48 percent
-- have fed suspicion among rank-and-file Democrats that the Bush
campaign rigged the vote, possibly through systematic computer hacking.
Republican pollster Dick Morris said the Election
Night pattern of mistaken exit polls favoring Kerry in six battleground
states -- Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and Iowa -- was
virtually inconceivable."Exit polls are almost never wrong,"
Morris wrote. "So reliable are the surveys that actually tap voters as
they leave the polling places that they are used as guides to the
relative honesty of elections in Third World countries. ... To screw up
one exit poll is unheard of. To miss six of them is incredible. It
boggles the imagination how pollsters could be that incompetent and
invites speculation that more than honest error was at play here." [more]
Palm Beach County Logs 88,000 More Votes Than Voters [more]
