paging Jim March

[woerm]

monkey business in NH primary?

odd notes

http://www.legitgov.org/nh_machine_vs_paper.html

the paper v electronic counts had some real issue that look outside of standard deviation.

reptile side

2008 New Hampshire Republican Primary Results --Total Republican Votes: 236,378 Machine vs Hand (RonRox.com) 09 Jan 2008
Mitt Romney, Diebold Accuvote optical scan: 33.075%
Romney, Hand Counted Paper Ballots: 25.483%
Ron Paul, Diebold Accuvote optical scan: 7.109%
Paul, Hand Counted Paper Ballots: 9.221%
Machine vs Hand:
Romney: 7.592% (17,946 votes)
Paul: -2.112% (-4,991 votes)

dhimiwit side:

2008 New Hampshire Democratic Primary Results --Total Democratic Votes: 286,139 - Machine vs Hand (RonRox.com) 09 Jan 2008
Hillary Clinton, Diebold Accuvote optical scan: 39.618%
Clinton, Hand Counted Paper Ballots: 34.908%
Barack Obama, Diebold Accuvote optical scan: 36.309%
Obama, Hand Counted Paper Ballots: 38.617%
Machine vs Hand:
Clinton: 4.709% (13,475 votes)
Obama: -2.308% (-6,604 votes)

note NH is all Dibold all the time

Jim any thought running up to November?

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[Jim March]

Too early to say.

One big issue is that one company (LHS Associates) programs all the Diebold gear for that state and several others in New England. They have more or less total control of the process...and at least one top exec is KNOWN to be a crook:

http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/71236.html

 

[Robert Hairless]

Never saw anyone rename the two major parties into "reptiles" and "dimwits" before now. Gotta look down on the sheeple of The Untied Skates of Armorica who elect congresscritters and other animals. Gun forums are a lesson in civics and patriotism, a veritable fountain of infurmacion on what it means to be an Armorican. Makes me proud. Paul Ron is the only can-dud-8 who counts. As they say "Who is Paul Ron?"

 

[ctdonath]

Heard an observation that the NH voting machines are largely located in quasi-urban areas, while the hand-counting is more in the rural areas (or some such division) - ergo, the type of voting available sorta correlates to the type of voters.

 

[Jim March]

True to some degree. Doesn't explain everything - like the 31 RP votes that went AWOL in just one precinct.

Plus...stop and think: does ANYBODY here see New Hampster as a potential Hillary base? Seriously? Massachussets, sure, Rhode Island, maybe Maryland...but New Hampster?

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But aside from any of that: the whole idea of having one company do all setup and election prep for eight New England states seems...problematic. When they have a felon as VP?

 

[Autolycus]

Seems like some major parties are working real hard to keep Ron Paul's name from being hard...