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Hannahcares

(118 posts)
Sat Oct 27, 2012, 01:38 PM Oct 2012

something is wrong with vote tabulations - the Flipper

text below is from Voices Newspaper Blog, a Madison Wisconsin based community blog. the article cites Richard Charnin's studies of Wisconsin election discrepancies. also more information on recently released study on 2012 Republican Primary vote flipping. more here at this link
http://voicesnewspaper.blogspot.com/2012/08/voices-continues-to-talk-to-richard.html






Voices Newspaper Blog
Friday, October 26, 2012
Election Fraud: Is the Fix In? Big Stories Breaking
VOICES has published a great deal this year about election integrity in Wisconsin -- problems in exit polls (more HERE, HERE and HERE) and vote totals (more HERE, HERE, and HERE) and, as a result, has been in contact with people across America about election fraud and indications that we may see a debacle like the 2000 or 2004 election this year. Do the interests behind this really have the audacity to unseat a sitting president -- the first African American POTUS? There will be a major release by a national player next week, but there are many that can demonstrate that problems with datasets indicate that U.S. elections are not on the up-and-up and there are many different ways to demonstrate this. More, including an short important video, after the jump.

BREAKING: Retired NSA Analyst Proves GOP Is Stealing Elections (h/t Richard Charnin)



Two highly-qualified analysts, Francois Choquette and James Johnson, published a report this summer titled: Republican Primary Election 2012 Results: Amazing Statistical Anomalies (38 pg .pdf) that is an important read.

Mathematicians that look at the numbers in Wisconsin and around the country are increasingly agreeing – there is something wrong with vote tabulations. The results the public is being told to accept (unverifiable because of proprietary private interests) cannot possibly be correct.

Choquette and Johnson's analysis of the Republican Primaries results from 2012 in Iowa, New Hampshire, Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma, Alabama, Louisiana, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Kentucky show disturbing problems that indicate a process is in place to flip voters -- in this case, away from Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul. This matters today because the same election procedures used to tabulate votes and assign a winner will be used in the November general elections.

Francois Choquette has spoken to VOICES and states upfront: This analysis DOES NOT prove that Mitt Romney actually lost the republican primary -- he is finding that votes were shifted to create the illusion that Romney was the run-away favorite which undermined the ability of others to raise money and run credible challenges. Of the three candidates that it appears votes were siphoned off from, Ron Paul had the least amount of votes stolen from his candidacy.

Choquette does have an important story for Wisconsinites -- like Richard Charnin, who's work we have shared, he can use basic math tools to demonstrate that something is wrong with "official" election results. Charnin's analysis of Winnebago County demonstrates that the Walker recall of June 5th may have been stolen.

Choquette and Johnson use a different line of analysis to show that the republican primary results cannot be reconciled with laws of mathematics. In Wisconsin, they find that Mitt Romney, in all but 6 counties, gained a larger percentage of support as more and more people voted -- violating basic principles of statistics -- mathematical science as valid as the law of gravity.

Please watch the embedded video above or read the report linked to above. For a shorter, concise summary of the main points being discussed in each, this short summary makes an important point about what appears to have happened when primary results are mathematically analyzed:
Every four years the American electorate trusts its system of laws and officials to conduct and maintain fair presidential elections. The integrity of the electoral process is the cornerstone to the peaceful turnover of the seat of government from one party to another that has kept our republic intact for over 200 years. Various efforts to disenfranchise citizens because of race, sex, or economic status have met with fierce resistance and we are blessed to live in a time where every citizen’s vote is protected. Yet, whenever there is something precious, thieves will try to steal it.
The report goes on (reporting as of May 2012):
This year’s election thief, called The Flipper, has been using a similar technique with votes, taking handfuls of votes from other candidates and making sure they are counted as votes for Mitt Romney. This brilliant strategy is cleverly designed to elude the many security measures in the election system so that county and state election officials believe their elections have been conducted fairly. The officials then promptly certify the election results, never knowing they’ve been robbed.
The theft was first observed in the Iowa caucuses (2012) where votes were flipped from Bachman, Perry, and Paul to Mitt Romney. (Yes, there were some other shenanigans going on that night with missing trucks and whatnot, but this is about what happened quietly in the central tabulator computer system) The caucus was initially declared a victory for Romney (though later given to Santorum) which gave him momentum and campaign financing going into the next set of primaries. Bachman and Perry both lost momentum and financing because of their lackluster performances (losing a fifth of your votes really does make you look bad); both dropped out of the race before New Hampshire.
The New Hampshire primary saw The Flipper strike again. This time he flipped votes from Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman to Mitt Romney. This gave Romney a substantial boost, more momentum, and more fundraising ability. It was the death knell for the Huntsman campaign.

Next, The Flipper moved on to South Carolina, Florida, Nevada, and Maine flipping votes from Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul to Mitt Romney. Then The Flipper showed up on Super Tuesday, effectively stealing Ohio and Virginia for Romney and boosting his totals in other states. In Oklahoma, The Flipper took votes from Santorum, Paul, and Gingrich in order to boost Mitt Romney to a second place finish there.

The proportional delegate distribution system in the early primaries means that a candidate who receives 40% of the vote in a state primary is entitled to 40% of the state’s delegates to the national convention. A candidate who gets 30% of the vote gets 30% of the delegates, and so on. At this point (May 1, 2012) The Flipper has effectively stolen over a hundred delegates for Mitt Romney in the delegate race count (1144 delegates are needed to win the Republican presidential nomination). And as an added bonus for Mitt Romney, Gingrich and Santorum have been deprived of enough votes to cripple their fundraising to the point that both have suspended their campaigns.
Choquette reports to VOICES that analysis of Wisconsin primary results show that in all but 6 counties, Romney sees the percentage of his support increase as turnout increases -- literally an endless surge of support that, on a graph, represents lines that move up and to the right as precinct size increases -- impossible.

For many reasons, including the "law of large numbers" Romney's support cannot endlessly go up as people go to the polls. We know from historical data and from scientific/statistical analysis that support for any candidate has to level off at some point. Even if it were true that, to a limited degree, that larger turnouts brought out more people for a given candidate, this effect would eventually be constant across all precincts and levels of voter participation.

There is only one way to explain graphs that slope up consistently based on voter participation -- we have strong evidence of vote-flipping and is fully explained in Choquette & Johnson's analysis.

But Francois Choquette took his findings one step farther -- remember, there were six counties, including one of Wisconsin's largest -- Otagaonie, which do not show a statistically impossible slope of increasing support based on increasing voter participation. He called the six counties and found that in each case, central tabulators ARE NOT used. Believe-it-or-not, Outagamie county and the rest manually total votes in commonly used spreadsheet software!

The flipper does not have access to that process -- hence the data is not corrupted to increase Romney's percentage of support based on voter participation.

And don't let the fact that Choquette and Johnson's analysis looks at the republican primary as a reason to dismiss their findings -- the same central tabulators and processes will be used in November -- if they can rig a republican primary in Wisconsin, they can do the same with the general election.

There are many important breaking stories that we will continue to report -- Richard Charnin's new book, Matrix of Deceit should be out next week. He has added a chapter exclusively devoted to analysis that demonstrate how elections are manipulated in Wisconsin. VOICES has been promised an advanced copy and will write a complete review and summary.

There are reports that, directly or indirectly, Mitt Romney actually owns a critical voting machine company -- a first in U.S. history. There is reason to believe that this could be used to corrupt results from key swing states like Ohio. This is not what democracy looks like.

Many highly-qualified analysts, like Richard Charnin, are saying that misleading polls from Gallup and Rasmussen are "tells" and indicate the fix is in. If polling companies are telling us that Romney is up by 6 (which was true last week) and if this type of reporting continues -- this does enable the mainstream media to misrepresent election outcomes.

Does anyone really believe that women are now largely supporting Mitt Romney and the republican war-on-women?

And VOICES has it from highly-placed sources that a "statistically significant and definitive" report will come out early next week that will illustrate how, if the fix is in, the election will be stolen. The source of this report explains that one goal of publishing this report is to shine some light on the process and perhaps cause "The Flipper" to cancel plans to implement a strategy already in place.

Your vote matters more this election than any other -- no election should be close enough that it can be stolen "fair and square". America needs to overturn the Help America Vote Act and move towards free, open, fair, transparent, and verifiable elections.

But this will not happen if we allow the 2012 fall elections to be stolen.

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something is wrong with vote tabulations - the Flipper (Original Post) Hannahcares Oct 2012 OP
You are absolutely correct. We must take action and not allow this to be stolen again! bkkyosemite Oct 2012 #1
Ive been looking for something like this. postulater Oct 2012 #2
Thank you. I was called paranoid this morning Tutonic Oct 2012 #3
OMGz!! There is a 99.9899999% chance he could be right! tritsofme Oct 2012 #4
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