Olbermann come's through!

[WestHoustonDem]

From his daily email about the show:

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Tonight on Countdown
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Keith blogs.... about the vote count.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

The election is over, uncontested, non-problematic, right?
Not quite. Some "issues" are bubbling to the surface.

* The Ohio Problem?
Officials in Warren County, Ohio, "locked down" its administration building to prevent anybody from observing the vote count there. County Commissioners confirmed that they were acting on the advice of their Emergency Services Director, Frank Young. Mr. Young had explained that he had been advised by the federal government to implement the measures for the sake of Homeland Security. (Cincinnati Enquirer) http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/11/05/loc_warrenvote05.html

* The Florida Problem?
While the heavily scrutinized touch-screen voting machines seemed to produce results in which the registered Democrat/Republican ratios largely matched the Kerry/Bush vote, in Florida's counties using results from optically scanned paper ballots - fed into a central tabulator PC and thus vulnerable to hacking - the results seem to contain substantial anomalies.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. kick

[CottonBear]

2. I'll believe when I hear it. n/t

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

4. Believe it!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

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Thus the majority of the media has yet to touch the other stories of Ohio (the amazing Bush Times Ten voting machine in Gahanna) or the sagas of Ohio South: huge margins for Bush in Florida counties in which registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans 2-1, places where the optical scanning of precinct totals seems to have turned results from perfect matches for the pro-Kerry exit poll data, to Bush sweeps.

We will be endeavoring to pull those stories, along with the Warren County farce, into the mainstream Monday and/or Tuesday nights on Countdown. That is, if we can wedge them in there among the news media’s main concerns since last Tuesday:

Who fixed the Exit Polls? Yes - you could deliberately skew a national series of post-vote questionnaires in favor of Kerry to discourage people from voting out west, where everything but New Mexico had been ceded to Kerry anyway, but you couldn’t alter key precinct votes in Ohio and/or Florida; and, What will Bush do with his Mandate and his Political Capital? He got the highest vote total for a presidential candidate, you know. Did anybody notice who’s second on the list? A Mr. Kerry. Since when was the term “mandate” applied when 56 million people voted against a guy? And by the way, how about that Karl Rove and his Freudian slip on “Fox News Sunday”? Rove was asked if the electoral triumph would be as impactful on the balance of power between the parties as William McKinley’s in 1896 and he forgot his own talking points. The victories were “similarly narrow,” Rove began, and then, seemingly aghast at his forthrightness, corrected himself. “Not narrow; similarly structured.”

Gotta dash now. Some of us have to get to work on the Warren and Florida stories. In the interim, Senator Kerry, kindly don’t leave the country.

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[Stephanie]

3. Wow!

He's going to cover the 5%?

[mhr]

5. Bev Says He Has Backtracked Since He Posted This

eom

[high density]

6. They just sent the email out saying it's going to be part of the show!

[WestHoustonDem]

7. You may be right but I just got this email 10 minutes ago

[shelley806]

10. Let's hope so. I e-mailed him yesterday about presenting as follows:

[e-mail]


Keith Olbermann

Dear Keith,

Thank you so much for your excellent, humorous, honest and objective reporting. I had wanted to e-mail you before, but the post election analysis has kept me quite busy. I have been logging onto DU since the debates, and have been trying to keep up with the tremendous amount of data. The link that I'm sending you is from an anonymous poster not registered at DU.

The graphs and the data are quite compelling, and I wish that you would peruse them. We've heard from Bev Harris that the media is being restricted from reporting on this most important issue; i.e. that they are not reporting on the fact that our democracy is being denied us. This is the case, if this turns out to be the widespread fraud that I fear it to be. I hope that you will keep your scheduled topic of potential election mishaps. All the best.

Sincerely,
***********

BTW: I've only included the first paragraph and none of the tables and graphs.

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~adamsb6/elections/


Examination of the Florida Elections


New: Florida is reporting more votes in the presidential election than it is reporting citizens that turned out to vote. Adding all the presidential race votes reported by the Florida Department of State here yields a total of 7,588,422 votes. The Florida Department of State reports here that voter turnout totalled only 7,350,900. That's a difference of 237,522. 3.1% of Florida's presidential votes were in excess of the number of voters in the election. 380,952 votes separate the President and John Kerry in Florida.
If we disregard the votes cast on the Model 100s and the Optech 3P Eagles, the difference between Bush and Kerry drops to 124,514. The votes cast on the Model 100s and the Optech 3P Eagles in conjunction with votes that cannot be tied to voters may have elected George W. Bush.
The 13 counties that report more votes than voters delivered 39.4% of the votes cast in Florida. These are the 13 counties:

[The Traveler]

9. What a flip flopper!

He backtracked on his backtracking ... he chickened out on chickening out ... that means he didn't backtrack or chicken out, right?

:evilgrin:

Give 'em hell, Keith!

[shelley806]

8. Keith posted this before the media put a freeze on reporting election

fraud...as per Bev Harris last night.