The Associated Press is striving to become a global news organization and the major player in the digital age. Tom Curley is the CEO. The AP has bureaus in all states. If you go to the web site you can click to get the addresses. Email communications, however, are centrally received
info@ap.org
and distributed to the addressee. What I'm suggesting is that we start feeding the AP information direct. To that effect, I have sent the following note to Mr. Curley
Dear Tom Curley:
Certainly the AP goal of being fully interactive in the news gathering and distribution business is a worthy one. However, considering that the AP was able to download election results on November 2nd directly from tabulating equipment, this innovation seems to have compromised the security of the electoral process.
I have no doubt that was not an intended outcome, nor would I expect an organization of your prestige to have knowingly participated in the manipulation of the results, but the fact is that the ability to surreptitiously change the totals was introduced into the system via the connections your organization arranged.
It would be interesting to know how many such connections were arranged (Illinois is one, for sure) and to assess whether the fifteen or so states where the returns are suspect match up.
While the certified electors in Ohio are open to challenge (and will be) on the basis of a whole slew of electoral irregularities, there are serious concerns among statisticians and other academics that the vote totals in the presidential election were illegally "adjusted." If the AP was an inadvertent participant, then, at the least, your organization should check it out. Don't you think?