Can Elizabeth Warren win in Massachusetts? Maybe not—regardless of how many votes she gets…. [View All]

[HomerRamone]

Back in August of 2010, the Election Defense Alliance came out with a troubling study of Scott Brown’s victory (if that is what it was) in the race to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat the previous January. The piece, by Jonathan Simon, included this observation:

“Where votes were observably counted by hand, the Democrat Martha Coakley defeated the Republican Scott Brown by a margin of 2.8%; where votes were counted unobservably and secretly by machine, Brown defeated Coakley by a margin of 5.2%.”

And aside from that anomaly—which, as usual, went wholly unreported by the corporate and progressive press—there was much else about that race that ought to worry anyone who cares about democracy:

http://electiondefensealliance.org/files/BelieveIt_OrNot_100904.pdf

Those now hoping that Elizabeth Warren will take Brown’s place in the Senate would do well to pay attention.

MORE: http://markcrispinmiller.com/2011/09/can-elizabeth-warren-win-in-massachusetts-maybe-not%e2%80%94regardless-of-how-many-votes-she-gets/