How can this possibly be news?
Report: Fixes Saved 1M Votes in 2004
Improvements to voting machines and election administration saved a million votes that otherwise would likely have gone uncounted in the 2004 elections, with states and counties that made the most comprehensive upgrades recovering the most votes, a new academic analysis says.
The report released Monday by the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project looked at a key measure of election integrity -- residual votes, or ballots cast during an election on which voters failed to mark a choice or machines did not record it.
I was wandering through Yahoo news seeing if there truly was a cover-up and/or media silence regarding G/G, and I wandered across this, which is the last story in the politics>white house>elections section.
First of all, why does a non-story like this get coverage? There are tons of statistical studies done showing that the elections were fradulent. (http://uscountvotes.org) Caltech itself has lost all credibility with the statistical community for trying to defend the results.
Secondly, why do they still feel the need to try and defend the results? It is abundantly clear that the MSM doesn't care and won't cover any criticism of Bush. This entire debate is almost purely of interest to a handful of statisticians, i.e. "pinhead yankees."
Thirdly, how come whenever they find "evidence" in favor of Bush, it is in the amount of 1 million votes? Hispanic voters? 1 mil. Exurbs? 1 mil. The more they keep trying this, the more obvious it becomes: the 1 million votes came from thin air and everybody knows it. Face it: the results of the last 2 presidential (and maybe even the 2002 interim) elections were fucked.
Fourth, what is above this story in the list? 4 negative stories about Howard dean, and a story (with parrot) about Edwards not even thinking about another run in 2008 because of his wife. Amusing.
Finally, did I ever manage to find a G/G story in today's Yahoo? Nope. Not in the US National section, not in any White House section, nada. However, in Oddly Enough, there is a somewhat amusing story of an Indian youth who defrauded the country. I wonder if he's also a gay prostitute with white house access.