Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[TJ Parker]

re A Clear Mandate (But Will The Foreign Creditors Go Along)

clear mandate? we'll see. pravda had a story today or yesterday about how bush stole the election via fraud ...

here in the u.s., so far, ken olberman is the only one who's given any coherent treatment to the electoral fraud/irregularities charges:

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/36837

there's a link there to a replay of last night's show and, by popular demand, he's continuing with the topic tonight (msnbc countdown). nader has called for a recount in nh because of perceived irregularities and 6 dems in congress have called for the cbo to investigate.


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There [in Florida], 52 counties tallied their votes using paper ballots that were then optically scanned by machines produced by Diebold, Sequoia, or Election Systems and Software. 29 of those Florida counties had large Democratic majorities among registered voters (as high a ratio as Liberty County— Bristol, Florida and environs— where it’s 88 percent Democrats, 8 percent Republicans) but produced landslides for President Bush. On Countdown, we cited the five biggest surprises (Liberty ended Bush: 1,927; Kerry: 1,070), but did not mention the other 24.

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Interestingly, none of the complaining emailers took issue with the remarkable results out of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. In 29 precincts there, the County’s website shows, we had the most unexpected results in years: more votes than voters.

I’ll repeat that: more votes than voters. 93,000 more votes than voters.

Oops.

Talk about successful get-out-the-vote campaigns! What a triumph for democracy in Fairview Park, twelve miles west of downtown Cleveland. Only 13,342 registered voters there, but they cast 18,472 votes.

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