Elections & Electronic Voting

Hi Linda, I've been posting and sending this around:

Recently I've started paying more attention to the mounting discourse on the internet and in some media outlets about the recent election irregularities. Call me crazy, call me a conspiracy theorist, that's fine. I was not of this mindset until I started looking at the numbers for myself. It's time to speak out. Unveil the truth (or at least ask the serious questions). Don't be afraid of retribution or character assassination. Use your name and begin the dialogue with your friends, families and community. The groundswell is happening and it will not die easily. To do nothing is to enable the status quo and participate in the charade.

While mainstream media has been showing lots of coverage of democrats beating themselves up over what they could have done differently and their underestimation of the sheer number of passionate and mobile conservatives, very few have been covering the increasing accounts of election tally irregularities. It seems that each day the election passes there are more and more legitimate questions being asked, and circumstantial evidence revealed, that raises serious question of whether this election was called accurately all.

I have been comparing the Florida election results, county by county, with the numbers of registered voters and their party affiliation. There appears to be very clear evidence of serious fraud, or coincidental errors beyond anyone's imagination.

I have attempted to lay this information out as clearly as possible. Please take a look and decide for yourself. http://www.passinglane.com/elections/

Increasingly, my theory is that counts were reversed in the less populated, heavily democratic Florida counties. These counties all used Optical Scanning machines to read paper ballots. If the wrong candidate was associated with the wrong hole in the punch card (Kerry and Bush were reversed) we would see results exactly consistent with what we received.

In Florida there are 29 counties out of 67 (over 43% of the counties in the state) that have a direct inverse relationship between the percentage of people registered to a party and the percentage of votes received by that party. Examples: In Hardy County registrations are 5:2 democratic, results are nearly 2:5 republican; Washington County registrations are 3:1 democratic, results are nearly 3:1 republican; Suwannee County registrations are a bit over 2:1 democratic, results are a bit over 2:1 republican; Bradford County registrations are a bit over 2:1 democratic, results are a bit over 2:1 republican; Holmes County registrations are 4:1 democratic, results are 3:1 republican.

The larger the disparity in registrant affiliation, the larger the reverse disparity of the results. I can't see how anyone can claim that this is due to disproportionately huge voting shifts in the most democratic counties. That would mean, in a county like Lafayette (with only 570 registered republicans) every registered republican voted; every undeclared voter voted republican (169); and of the 3,570 registered democrats, 1,004 did not vote; and of those who did, registered democrats voted republican by more than 2 to 1 (1,721 to 845).

Furthermore, If we look at just the Touch-Screen machines in Florida, 8 out of 15 counties using these machines showed more voters moving toward Kerry and away from Bush as compared to the ratios of registered democrats and republicans. As a mater of fact, in each of these 8 counties Kerry/Edwards votes exceeded registered democratic voters while the number of republican votes were less than the total number of registered republicans in those counties.

Steven Echtman

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