9:48 PM

jwz - election rigging:

bellaciao.org has some graphs of the major discrepencies between exit polling and vote counts. They’re pretty incredible! Now, maybe the exit polling methodology is just fundamentally broken, but isn’t it funny when you see pictures like the one at the right, knowing that last year, Diebold’s CEO swore that he was “committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to President Bush.”

And in Florida, some numbers and graphs: districts using electronic voting machines tended to skew Republican, while those without electronic voting ran even with predicted ratios. “An analysis of variance conducted on the percent change for each party ([Actual vote minus expected vote]/expected vote) in each county, with ‘machine type’ as a predictive factor, indicated that machine type was a significant predictor of percent change in voting. Counties using E-touch machines showed significantly positive percent changes in vote for both Republican and Democrat candidates, with greater mean percent changes for the Democrat. However counties using Op-scan machines showed significant positive percent change only for the Republican candidate, the mean change for the Democrat being insignificantly greater than zero.”

You don’t steal an election with a landslide, you steal it with 3%. You stay within the margin of error across the board so that it’s not obvious.