Brian Livingston is a technology columnist most noted for his Windows "Secrets" books. To say he is a Windows guru is to put it mildly.
I was surprised to find that he's been getting into alleged voter fraud in the 2004 election. As his credential are impeccible, at least in the IT business. This is the first time I've seen him write anything on politics.
The discrepancies, the organization points out, are worse in the U.S. than in one of two exit polls conducted during Ukraine's recent national election, which resulted in the results being thrown out by that country's Supreme Court last December. The two Ukrainian exit polls showed a discrepancy between the expected vote count and the official vote count of 4.7 to 10.7 percentage points. In the U.S., both USCountVotes.org and the company that conducted the presidential exit polling agree that the official vote count is at least 5.5 percentage points different from the expected vote count.
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It's a concise article that looks at the issue from a number of sides. But you get the feeling his eyebrows are in the stratosphere and doesn't believe the last election represented the will of the people.
Asked how votes in one or more states could have been changed to affect the outcome in 2004, Bruce O'Dell, the vice president of USCountVotes.org, pointed out that about 30% of U.S. votes are now cast on equipment that cannot be audited. Once a count is issued by these electronic ballot boxes, the number cannot be double-checked against paper ballots.
"Many security professionals can identify a dozen different methods to alter these results," O'Dell said.
O'Dell pointed to Ohio, where a change of only about 60,000 voters would have given that state's electors, and thereby the election, to Kerry. A recount in that state was meaningless, he said, because (among other things) only a few, pre-selected polling places were recounted and equipment vendors had been inexplicably allowed to re-program election machinery after Nov. 2.
Full article is here.
Go ahead and send him comments, Kossacks!