Olberman STRIKES AGAIN!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

November 9, 2004 | 12:55 a.m. ET

Electronic voting angst (Keith Olbermann)

NEW YORK — Bev Harris, the Blackbox lady, was apparently quoted in a number of venues during the day Monday as having written “I was tipped off by a person very high up in TV that the news has been locked down tight, and there will be no TV coverage of the real problems with voting on Nov. 2… My source said they’ve also been forbidden to talk about it even on their own time.”

I didn’t get the memo.

We were able to put together a reasonably solid 15 minutes or so on the voting irregularities in Florida and Ohio on Monday’s Countdown. There was some You-Are-There insight from the Cincinnati Enquirer reporter who had personally encountered the ‘lockdown’ during the vote count in Warren County, Ohio, a week ago, and a good deal of fairly contained comment from Representative John Conyers of Michigan, who now leads a small but growing group of Democratic congressmen who’ve written the General Accountability Office demanding an investigation of what we should gently call the Electronic Voting Angst. Conyers insisted he wasn’t trying to re-cast the election, but seemed mystified that in the 21st Century we could have advanced to a technological state in which voting— fine, flawed, or felonious— should leave no paper trail.

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Interestingly, none of the complaining emailers took issue with the remarkable results out of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. In 29 precincts there, the County’s website shows, we had the most unexpected results in years: more votes than voters.

I’ll repeat that: more votes than voters. 93,000 more votes than voters. (comment from poster: and HOW FAR AHEAD was Shrub??)

Oops

(snip)

Having said all that— for crying out loud, all the data we used tonight on Countdown was on official government websites in Cleveland and Florida. We confirmed all of it— moved it right out of the Reynolds Wrap Hat zone in about ten minutes.

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Ghod Luv ya Keith!!!!!

n/t

:loveya:

:)

:P

I say we time-share him. I get him 6 days out of the week and the rest of you can share him on Day 7.

this is great stuff

that his gimmicky news show with the moving monitors and him throwing papers at the cameras was a little too over-the-top, but it's the results that count!

Keith, :yourock:

is sexy!

I love his show.

I like that

:headbang:

so called "mainstream" Read the whole thing. He was very encourged by the postive e-mails, keep it up. His e-mail ratio was 1500 positve to 62 negative.

The nerve has been hit, I hope we can keep hitting it.

LOL...LOVE that! Instead of :tinfoilhat:

Go, Keith, Go!

If he's reading this, he should RUN WITH IT!

:wow:

I'm speechless! No wonder this guy was fired from Faux. He totally rocks!

I stopped getting satellite TV when I realized I really couldn't afford it . . .

but, I may have to figure out how to pay for it after all.

I love Keith!

:loveya:

I am pricing out dishes now, only for Keith and The Daily Show.

This is a good piece. Great perspective from the news office.

countdown@msnbc.com <countdown@msnbc.com>I did this morning