Votes assigned by poll workers to candidates randomly in Cleveland precinc

"There's a great diary on kos
(http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/2/44647/2043
where the author, jfern, notes patterns of excessive votes for
third-party candidates Badnarik and Peroutka and puts forth a thesis that it is caused by mixing up ballots at multiple-precinct polling places"

these precincts are among the ones I first
pointed out in Cleveland. First they said that these
were mostly Hispanic precincts and the people couldn't
read English and there was nobody there to help them
and they put their punch cards in backwards, but the
precinct they were talkling about had only one spoiled
ballot. Then they said that the order in which the
candidates appear on the ballot rotates from precinct
to precinct and people were given the wrong punch
cards, but there is no example anywhere in Cuyahoga
County of Bush losing votes to third party candidates,
it never happened in any Bush precinct, I already
checked into this, and besides, I found the same
pattern in Butler County. Now they are blaming it on
the counting machines. Insert icon with rolling eyes
here. The fact is that none of the Cuyahoga County
numbers, not to say election returns, can be trusted.
You can quote me. Richard Hayes Phillips PhD

It just keeps coming. Amazing!!

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=108132&mesg_id=108132>

http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/cleveland.htm

Does this appear to be incompetance or fraud? Either way its a strange way to decide who should be President. Why would they certify votes known to be arbitrarily assigned?

But ALL this incompetence seems to break for Bush. What a coincidence.

it is flat out fraud. Was 2000 not example enough? I knew that fucker did not win my state!