NEWS: (NPR) Voting Irregularities

[AmyCrat]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4170777
click "listen"

It's covers a few topics... isn't too long... about 5 minutes. I thought it was interesting.

Letters: Questions about Voting Irregularities
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Talk of the Nation, November 15, 2004 · Last week, we examined some of the allegations of voter fraud that have come up since Nov. 2. Since then, an analysis of voting irregularities has been released. MIT political scientist Charles Stewart wrote the final report and answers some questions we didn't get have time to answer.
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[rodeodance]

1. thanks, glad they covered it

[CHICKEN CAPITOL USA]

2. go home--this guy says no voter fraud

gee whiz, now I feel alot better.
It was just the media reports' timing of releasing stories.

This is National Republikkkan Radio

exit polls
hypothesis
"problems"
lying
???
WTF--let me talk to this MIT political science repube cheerleader

The whole point is that there is no hard evidence of voter fraud but alot of discrepancies and therefore there is now a need to investigate because of the fact that the no paper trail machines leave no hard evidence.
Now is the time to investigate, not dismiss.

[truehawk]

3. This is the MIT/CalTech voting technology report

That used the "corrected" exit polls from Nov 3.

[GettysbergII]

4. I documented the truckload of hypocrisy in this report at dailykos

The November 11, 2004 Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project (VTP) report entitled Voting Machines and the Underestimate of the Bush Vote has several very serious flaws:

1) There's a widespread skepticism about the final vote counts in many states, especially because of the vast difference between those results & the exit polls.
2) The single academic argument in favor of the voting-results-as-is harkens from the Cal-Tech/MIT Electronic Voting Project.
3) The leaders of both schools' efforts in this consortium are men with strong ties to the radical-right movement.
4) The arguments they make in this unsigned paper run counter to the core positions they've taken before on electronic voting.

For a full explanation, read the story at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/14/03617/399

[bobbieinok]

5. noticed that......maybe a bunch of letters to let them know THEIR

listeners have many sources of info so cannot be as easily conned