Off Topic: Ohio Poll Workers Convicted of Rigging 2004 Recount
Michael Hampton writes on Homeland Stupidity:
Two Ohio election officials were convicted last week of rigging a recount of the 2004 presidential election results.More here.
Cuyahoga County election officials Jacqueline Maiden and Kathleen Dreamer were each convicted of one count of negligent misconduct of an elections employee, a felony, and one count of failure of elections employees to perform their duty, a misdemeanor. The two still work for the county elections board.
Election procedure for a recount in Ohio called for counting three percent of the county’s ballots by hand and by machine, and if they matched, to recount all of the rest of the ballots by machine. But if they did not match, then the entire county’s ballots must be hand-counted.
Maiden and Dreamer decided to take an illegal shortcut, however, to avoid a recount of all the ballots.
That’s right, instead of picking the ballots at random as they were supposed to, they picked specific ballots they knew wouldn’t cause any trouble and trigger a hand recount of every ballot.
This exact event was covered in the HBO Documentary, "Hacking Democracy".
posted by Fergie @ 1/30/2007 12:03:00 PM
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OHIO 2004: 6.15% Kerry-Bush vote-switch found in probability study
Defining the vote outcome probabilities of wrong-precinct
voting has revealed, in a sample of 166,953 votes (1 of
every 34 Ohio voters), the Kerry-Bush margin changes 6.15%
when the population is sorted by probable outcomes of
wrong-precinct voting.
The Kerry to Bush 6.15% vote-switch differential is seen
when the large sample is sorted by probability a Kerry
wrong-precinct vote counts for Bush. When the same large
voter sample is sorted by the probability Kerry votes count
for third-party candidates, Kerry votes are instead equal
in both subsets.
Read the article with graphs of findings:
Ohio Presidential Election: Cuyahoga County Analysis
How Kerry Votes Were Switched to Bush Votes
http://jqjacobs.net/politics/ohio.html
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