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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Thursday, November 04, 2004

Crunching the numbers

Creepy, indeed:
Brad at BradBlog.com reports on a very troubling analysis done of votes in Florida that were tallied by machines produced by Diebold (the company run by the big Republican) and ES&S (a company reportedly founded by the CEO of Diebold).

It's a bit complicated, but in a nutshell, you can look at registered voters for each party in a precinct and guesstimate how many votes each party might get in that precinct. Then you compare that guesstimate with how many people actually voted for each party in that precinct.

I know, complicated. But in the end what they found was a shocking number of the Diebold and ES&S precincts logged WAY MORE Republican votes than expected and WAY FEWER Dem votes than expected. Whereas the other precincts, not nearly such a divergence.

That's creepy. Especially when you consider that Diebold and ES&S supposedly tallied 80% of the nation's vote. You see where this is going.

He then links here and here for data results. Look them over. Decide for yourself.