tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481330.post164117190167014160..comments2023-10-24T11:05:25.288-04:00Comments on Mark Rauterkus & Running Mates ponder current events: Texas sized problem in calling election for HillaryMark Rauterkushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17157914569686528007noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481330.post-79902863843711721082008-03-06T20:55:00.000-05:002008-03-06T20:55:00.000-05:00Dear Friends,I forwarded you an email on yesterday...Dear Friends,<BR/><BR/>I forwarded you an email on yesterday's suspicious Texas primary<BR/>election results but did not author it.<BR/><BR/>Here is my own take -<BR/><BR/>A FOLLOW-UP ON WHAT HAPPENED IN THE TUESDAY TEXAS PRIMARY ELECTION:<BR/><BR/>Did 21 counties in TX really have NO Republican voters?<BR/>Did 3 counties in TX really have NO Democratic voters?<BR/><BR/>Or did the voting machine software count the paper and the invisible<BR/>e-ballots incorrectly?<BR/><BR/>-----------<BR/>Check out the CNN and Texas Secretary of State web sites.<BR/><BR/>http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_135_race0.htm<BR/><BR/>http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_136_race0.htm<BR/><BR/>http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#TX<BR/><BR/>Here is the list of voting machines used in TX by county:<BR/><BR/>http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/sysexam/voting-sys-bycounty.pdf<BR/>-------------<BR/><BR/>Probably the virtually impossible TX vote counts were not caused by<BR/>fraud, but WERE caused by human error.<BR/><BR/>(Human error is the only kind of election error since humans build and<BR/>program the machines, the ballot definitions, and the databases used<BR/>to count votes.)<BR/><BR/>The counties with zero vote counts for either the Republicans or the<BR/>Democrats used a variety of voting machines:<BR/><BR/>ES&S optical scanners and digital recording electronic (DRE) voting<BR/>machines, and also Hart DRE and optical scan voting machines.<BR/><BR/>Texas also uses Diebold voting machines, but no counties using<BR/>Diebold voting machines had zero votes counted for the Republicans or<BR/>Democrats.<BR/><BR/>In Washington State's February primary they counted some Republican<BR/>ballots as Democratic ballots also in some counties - where voters<BR/>whose names contained particular letters had their ballots counted as<BR/>Democratic ballots, even though many of them had voted as Republicans<BR/>- so the vote counts there were inaccurate in the same manner as<BR/>Texas' vote counts are most likely inaccurate.<BR/><BR/>If Republican ballots were all counted as Democratic ballots in 21<BR/>Texas counties, then extra votes were awarded to Clinton or to Obama<BR/>depending on the corresponding ballot positions of Republican primary<BR/>candidates as compared to Clinton or Obama's position on the ballots.<BR/><BR/>I.e. If ballots were counted incorrectly in those 24 TX counties, then<BR/>both the Republican and Democratic vote counts were inaccurate in TX.<BR/><BR/>Washington state used ES&S optical scan voting systems and the<BR/>database of voters was incorrect (and perhaps other databases as<BR/>well.) It will be interesting to see what causes are associated with<BR/>the incorrect vote counts in TX, and whether or not the DRE vote<BR/>counts, without a paper ballot record, can be corrected at all or not.<BR/><BR/>Election officials seem to have a tendancy for covering up problems<BR/>with the vote counts rather than routinely detecting, exposing, and<BR/>correcting the inevitable errors. It is surprising that election<BR/>officials do not notice these type of errors until after election<BR/>advocates point out the virtually impossible patterns of vote counts.<BR/><BR/>If the press reports this virtually impossible phenomenon in TX it is<BR/>likely that Republican voters will come forward (or the voter<BR/>registries can be examined) to find Republicans who voted in the 21<BR/>counties, as well as Dem voters in the 3 counties claiming zero Dem<BR/>votes.<BR/><BR/>What common errors could have caused so many counties (21) in TX to<BR/>show no votes for all voters of either the Democratic or Republican<BR/>party?<BR/><BR/>There may be a common error among those counties in the way they<BR/>programmed their voting machines which caused all voters' ballots to<BR/>be counted for only one party.<BR/><BR/>PERHAPS:<BR/><BR/>1. these counties used the same consultant to program their<BR/>electronic voter registration or electronic poll books which<BR/>improperly listed all voters as belonging to the same political party?<BR/><BR/>or<BR/><BR/>2. these 24 TX counties hired the same consulting firm to program<BR/>their voting machines.<BR/><BR/>or<BR/><BR/>3. the county election officials all forgot, or were not trained to,<BR/>sort the ballots prior to counting them, or to program the voting<BR/>machines correctly,<BR/><BR/>or<BR/><BR/>4. the poll workers made errors (Vendors and Election Officials<BR/>typically blame election problems on poll workers.)<BR/><BR/>or<BR/><BR/>5. the voters forgot to fill out a bubble to indicate what political<BR/>party their ballot was<BR/><BR/>or<BR/><BR/>6. the ballot printers of optical scan ballots forgot to print<BR/>different bar codes on the Republican and Democratic ballots<BR/><BR/>Computers magnify human error and the ability to commit vote fraud by<BR/>a thousand-fold.<BR/><BR/>For instance, the States of MA, NH, and CT all use the same company,<BR/>LHS, to program all their optical scan machines, and CT found in<BR/>conducting audits of the memory cards during the election, that a high<BR/>percentage of memory cards contained junk and were improperly<BR/>programmed.<BR/><BR/>In New York State, election officials "forgot" to record Obama votes<BR/>on the reports they submitted from the polls to the central election<BR/>office. In New Jersey, the voting machines malfunctioned and counted<BR/>votes incorrectly.<BR/><BR/>It seems probable that Clinton and Obama were awarded extra votes in<BR/>Texas that were meant for Republican candidates - and probably not in<BR/>the same proportion as Democratic voters.<BR/><BR/>The TX primary election vote counts are obviously not accurate - not<BR/>even TX popular vote counts are accurate in the 24 counties are<BR/>showing that either no Republicans or alternatively that no Democrats<BR/>voted.<BR/><BR/>It could be that ALL ballots were counted as Democratic in those 21<BR/>counties and that votes for certain Republicans were counted<BR/>incorrectly as votes for certain Democrats (perhaps Clinton).<BR/><BR/>Here is an excellent article, very well written, by a historian on the<BR/>phenomenon of how press already improperly reported on the TX primary<BR/>election contest between Obama vs. Clinton:<BR/><BR/>http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/030608a.html<BR/><BR/>I hope that press and TX election officials will investigate and<BR/>uncover exactly what the problems were in TX and that TX election<BR/>officials will try to correct the TX vote counts, rather than trying<BR/>to convince the public that there were "no problems".<BR/><BR/>THE OTHER POSSIBILITY<BR/><BR/>is that ALL Texas Republicans crossed over in these 21 counties to try<BR/>to influence the Democratic primary election. That would not be a<BR/>flattering picture of Republican voters. Let's hope that was not the<BR/>case.<BR/><BR/>Yet that would not explain the lack of any Democratic votes in 3<BR/>counties where there was not much reason for Democrats to cross-over<BR/>and vote in the Republican primary.<BR/><BR/>The only way to know the cause(s) for this highly suspicious pattern<BR/>in the Texas primary is to investigate all the more likely<BR/>possibilities, that ballots were counted inaccurately, and eliminate<BR/>it first.<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/><BR/>Kathy<BR/><BR/>----------------------------------<BR/><BR/> Here is the Texas Vote Count Data for the 24 counties reporting zero<BR/>votes for either Republicans or Democrats:<BR/><BR/>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<BR/>Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.<BR/>richardhayesphillips(AT)yahoo.com<BR/>March 5, 2008<BR/><BR/>Didn't anybody notice this?<BR/><BR/>It is now 24 hours after the polls closed in Texas.<BR/><BR/> In 21 counties, with 100% of precincts reporting,<BR/>Nobody voted in the Republican presidential primary.<BR/><BR/> In 3 counties, with 100% of precincts reporting,<BR/>Nobody voted in the Democratic presidential primary.<BR/><BR/> In the 21 counties with NO Republican voters, there were<BR/>87,919 registered voters, and<BR/>36,239 ballots cast,<BR/>all of them Democratic.<BR/><BR/> In the 3 counties with NO Democratic Voters, there were<BR/>5,212 registered voters, and<BR/>1,865 ballots cast,<BR/>all of them Republican.<BR/><BR/>In Maverick County,<BR/>ALL 9,661 ballots cast were Democratic.<BR/><BR/>In Hansford County,<BR/>ALL 1,235 ballots cast were Republican.<BR/><BR/>ONE-PARTY TEXAS COUNTIES, PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY, 2008<BR/><BR/> County Registered Republican Democratic<BR/> Voters Votes Votes<BR/>Armstrong 1404 369 0<BR/>Borden 432 0 139<BR/>Brooks 6385 0 3185<BR/>Cottle 1230 0 471<BR/>Crockett 2654 0 1166<BR/>Culberson 1959 0 526<BR/>Dickens 1410 0 612<BR/>Duval 9331 0 5053<BR/>Foard 1043 0 432<BR/>Hall 2110 0 813<BR/>Hansford 3101 1235 0<BR/>Hardeman 2969 0 1086<BR/>Hudspeth 1557 0 476<BR/>Kent 665 0 250<BR/>La Salle 4071 0 1392<BR/>Loving 116 0 22<BR/>Maverick 26224 0 9661<BR/>Reeves 6337 0 2228<BR/>Roberts 707 261 0<BR/>Stonewall 1087 0 483<BR/>Throckmorton 1175 0 513<BR/>Upton 2139 0 823<BR/>Zapata 7148 0 3190<BR/>Zavala 7877 0 3718<BR/><BR/>But don't take my word for it. See for yourself.<BR/><BR/>http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_135_race0.htm<BR/><BR/>http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_136_race0.htm<BR/><BR/>http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#TX<BR/><BR/>Election officials in the State of Texas have some explaining to do.<BR/><BR/>Richard Hayes Phillips is the author of the definitive book on the<BR/>2004 presidential election in Ohio<BR/>– "Witness to a Crime: A Citizens' Audit of an American Election."<BR/>For more information:richardhayesphillips(AT)yahoo.com<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Kathy Dopp<BR/><BR/>The material expressed herein is the informed product of the author<BR/>Kathy Dopp's fact-finding and investigative efforts. Dopp is a<BR/>Mathematician, Expert in election audit mathematics and procedures; in<BR/>exit poll discrepancy analysis; and can be reached at<BR/><BR/>P.O. Box 680192<BR/>Park City, UT 84068<BR/>phone 435-658-4657<BR/><BR/>http://utahcountvotes.org<BR/>http://electionmathematics.org<BR/>http://electionarchive.orgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7481330.post-2738178796113277502008-03-06T16:17:00.000-05:002008-03-06T16:17:00.000-05:00What happened in Texas yesterday?Did 21 counties i...What happened in Texas yesterday?<BR/><BR/>Did 21 counties in TX have NO Republican voters?<BR/>Did 3 counties in TX have NO Democratic voters?<BR/><BR/>Check out the CNN and Texas Secretary of State web sites.<BR/><BR/>Really? Or is something wrong with the trade secret software that<BR/>counts the invisible e-ballots in TX?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com