Revised exit polls don't add up

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Wednesday November 03, 2004 · 8:11 AM PST

2004/11/03 · 08:11

Cross-posted at eRiposte

The revised exit poll shows Bush 50.2%, Kerry 48.8% overall, but when you look at the same exit poll on how Bush/Gore/Other 2000 voters and "new" voters voted this time, Kerry comes out on top (49.88% to Bush's 49.80%)! Something doesn't add up.

According to the revised exit poll:

(a) In Election 2004, voters who did not vote in 2000 were a whopping 17% of the electorate and they went for Kerry by a big margin (10%).

(b) Gore 2000 voters went for Bush 2004 by a margin of 1% more than Bush 2000 voters went for Kerry 2004.

(c) Those who voted neither for Bush nor Gore in 2000 went for Kerry by a massive margin (50%), and only a small fraction of the "Other" voters in 2000 went for Nader.

(d) There were 4% more Bush 2000 voters this time around compared to Gore 2000 voters!

And these same set of data indicate a higher popular vote for Kerry. Something doesn't add up.

Take a look

GOP vote challenge scandal in Ohio - link to DNC donations?

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Saturday October 30, 2004 · 2:44 PM PDT

2004/10/30 · 14:44

I have captured this in my vote fraud database at Vote Watch 2004, but I wanted to alert this community with an update on the growing GOP Ohio vote challenge scandal.

Reader EN, first brought this article to my attention in which two U-Toledo faculty members pointed out that the GOP registration challenge was a fraud considering that they live in the addresses that the GOP claimed that did not. Both of them live with their spouses - who are listed at the same address - but the spouses were not challenged. An interesting, additional detail is that one of the faculty members (Alice Frye) points out that she has donated money to the Democratic Party in her name (different last name from her husband) - but her husband (who was not challenged) has not directly written a check to the Democrats. Hmmmm.

Reader EN wrote in his own report, which seems to indicate there is more than coincidence at work here [continued below the fold]. Read More

Why Vote for Kerry? John Kerry for Dummies

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Sunday October 24, 2004 · 5:23 PM PDT

2004/10/24 · 17:23

I want to address two separate issues in this diary.

First this:
Over the last week I have directly or indirectly heard multiple Republicans ask why they should vote for John Kerry. They have raised concern over his "Senate record", flip-flopping, tax raising....you know the rest.

Second this:
Over the previous few weeks I have heard MULTIPLE Democrats or Independents in California wonder why they should bother voting in CA given that CA will vote for Kerry anyway. Now, the Democrats in question are actually staunch Kerry supporters and want Bush out of office. But they have been told CA is a blue state and wonder why their vote makes any difference.

I would like to provide answers here. I hope this community can use this information as well, since I am sure there are Democrats not just in blue states but also red states who probably wonder whether their vote counts.

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