(Precinct 13 is the one to watch.........)
SNIP....Provisional Ballots Rejected. An entirely new species of ballot debuted nationwide in 2004: the “provisional ballot.” These were crucial to the Bush victory. Not because Republicans won this “provisional” vote. They won by rejecting provisional ballots that were cast overwhelmingly in Democratic precincts. The sum of “the uncounted” is astonishing: 675,676 ballots lost in the counties reporting to the federal government. Add in the missing jurisdictions and the un-vote climbs to over a million: 1,090,729 provisional ballots tossed out.
SNIP....Precinct 13 wasn’t unique. On Navajo lands, indecision struck on an epidemic scale. They walked in, they didn’t vote. In nine precincts in McKinley County, New Mexico, which is 74.7 percent Navajo, fewer than one in ten voters picked a president.
((((((Those who voted on paper ballots early or absentee knew who they wanted (Kerry, overwhelmingly), but the machine-counted vote said Indians simply couldn’t make up their minds or just plain didn’t care))))).
On average, across the state, the machine printouts say that 7.3 percent — one in twelve voters — in majority Native precincts didn’t vote for president. That’s three times the percentage of white voters who appeared to abstain. In pueblo after pueblo, on reservation after reservation throughout the United States, the story was the same.
Nationally, one out of every 12 ballots cast by Native Americans did not contain a vote for President. Indians by the thousands drove to the voting station, walked into the booth, said, “Who cares?” and walked out without voting for president.
http://www.gregpalast.com/recipe-for-a-cooked-election