Election coverage

[tony schinella]

A couple of things. First, keeping with the radio 
list theme, Donna asked what people's thoughts 
were about Air America. Here is a good example of 
how they, liberal bloggers, and Web sites, are 
shaping the news or at least attempting to 
influence the news. While conservative radio hosts 
are talking about Bush's mandate and Arlen 
Specter's liberal tendencies, AA and others are 
questioning machine problems and vote results. 
Some of the non-news orgs have raised some 
interesting questions about the results.
But legit news orgs are finally talking about 
machine problems: 4,000 votes unaccounted for in 
Sharon, Penn., machines problems in Charlotte, 
10,000 ballots thrown out in New Mexico, Columbus, 
Ohio machines showing skewered numbers, in 
counties throughout Florida, results for president 
added up to more votes than actual ballots cast, 
tens of thousands of votes disappear from machines 
in LaPorte County, Ind., more than 10,000 extra 
votes in Sarpy County, Neb., etc. I don't believe 
that all of it is fraud but since no one can look 
inside the machines and many of these states don't 
have non-candidate recount laws, no one will ever 
really know.
However, on a political note, the election 
shouldn't be over yet. In Ohio, more than 92,000 
punch-card ballots were note counted, according to 
Cleveland Plains Dealer. More than 155,000 
provisional ballots have yet to be counted, if 
they ever will be. Kerry lost by less than 70,000 
votes [Bush's 136,000 lead dropped to 
133,000-change due to a machine glitch]. Do the 
math. Sure, Kerry has to win 75 percent of the 
punch-card ballots to win but that isn't 
impossible.
After promising to make sure every vote was 
counted, Kerry conceded. It was a big mistake.

Best,
Tony Schinella
radiotony@comcast.net
http://politizine.blogspot.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>
To: 
<boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 1:29 AM
Subject: Election coverage


> Stephanie Miller this morning gave another 
> Website on the 2004 election:
> http://stolenelection2004.com .  I think this is 
> the one she meant yesterday, when she gave
> "stolenelection2000.com."
>
> I understand that MSNBC has become the first 
> television network to start to pick up this
> story.  There apparently are a number of 
> documented malfunctions of the touch-screen
> systems, as well as widespread incidents of 
> dropping valid voters from voter lists.  The 
> most
> dramatic seems to be Franklin County, Ohio, 
> where electronic voting machines gave Bush
> 4,258 votes to Kerry's 260 votes in one 
> precinct,  while only 638 voters cast ballots in 
> that
> precinct.
>
> I don't know whether this is fraud or equipment 
> failure, and I doubt that enough can be found
> to change the result, even if it exists.  But it 
> still needs investigating, and it deserves
> coverage by the media.
>
> -- 
> A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 
> 617.367.0468
> 15 Court Square, Suite 210 
> lawyer@attorneyross.com
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>
>
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