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I am the woman who did the analysis for New Hampshire. Yes, I know John Kerry won the state, but I did it because the exit poll said he was going to take it by 17% (at 4:00 p.m.), and he only did it by 1.3% a few hours later.
What I found was that precincts using Diebold AccuVote equipment were responsible for 62% of the "not in trend" precincts -- accounting for 78% of all "not in trend" precincts.
To accept the numbers, one must believe that small, rural towns in New Hampshire are "more LIBERAL" than mid to large cities in New Hampshire. Coincidentally, the mid to large cities use more "sophisticated" vote counting equipment, while the small towns use HAND COUNTED PAPER BALLOTS.
New Hampshire is a small state with a proud tradition; it will NOT take long to recount the votes there. If there is a "glitch" in the software (I'm a programmer -- one wrong comma, or reversing an IF/THEN/ELSE statement, and your results are SCREWY), then this exercise in comparing RAW DATA versus REPORTED DATA will identify it.
If the machines counted correctly, then it will be time suck it up, and let the healing begin. But until then, since the numbers DON'T MAKE SENSE, we need to do this so we can have faith in our own democracy. Its the equivalent of balancing your checkbook: you expect one number, the bank says something else, so you sit down and compare the numbers.
The electoral college doesn't meet until December so that these issues can be resolved. I would appreciate some help in getting it done. God bless Ralph Nader -- out of the three candidates on the ballot in New Hampshire, he was the only one willing to step forward and help SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY (or at least validate that its still working).
I don't give a rat's ass about the Democratic Party; I'm an Independent who supported John Kerry because I believe he would be a better president than George W. Bush. If the electoral fallout from this exercise puts John Kerry in the White House, and he doesn't want the job, then he can resign. I've always been fond of John Edwards, too.
You can read the summary of New Hampshire data here: www.invisibleida.com/New_Hampshire.htm. I am working on crunching some preliminary numbers for New Mexico, and frankly, they look worse than New Hampshire -- I need precinct level data to confirm, though. (2000 & 2004)
Now, I have work to do -- anyone want to help balance the checkbook?
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