Reply #196: All major studies showed major problems in big touchscreen counties [View All]

[berniew1]

The "audit" in 3 small rural counties is a red herring being circulated to quell concern over possible fraud in Florida. The 3 small counties in question showed no irregularities in pattern compared to 2000 voting and recent voter registration data. They were volunteered to be counted because it was known that they had no problems. Otherwise they wouldn't have been volunteered to have the counts.
But all of the major studies on unusual voting patterns in Florida
Univ. of Calif.(Berkeley) study, Princeton Univ. study and www.flcv.com/fla04EAS.html
found that the big unusual patterns in Florida were in the big touchscreen counties. This appears to be an attempt to take attention away from the touchscreen counties where anomalous patterns of votes was found by focusing instead on small optical scan counties. But it says nothing about the bigger issue, touchscreens in large counties. There were some larger optical scan counties that showed some unexpected voting patterns, but not these and not as much as the touchscreen counties.