I think OJ is innocent and like Kucinich I have seen an unidentified flying object, so I'm immune to taunts about conspiracy theories and the like - fire away.  But we have faced two Presidential Elections where we saw irregularities in vote counting.  We have seen the documentaries, read the articles, and some of us have had our States decertify machines.  Indeed, California's Secretary of State won the election precisely over the issue.  

We have started the first of many actual primaries where machines are going to come into play.  We have already begun looking at polling with some skepticism, an examination which I imagine will be constant as we go forward from State to State.  I am not making any judgments as to what the data means, but I firmly think that while we go forward in this process it is important we also examine State by State the irregularities and differences between machine tabulation and traditional means and see what develops, see if there's a pattern.  

New Hampshire had roughly 80% of it's votes counted by Diebod machines which have a terrible record for accuracy.  On the democrat side there is an 8.448% swing between the positive and negative extremes in terms of % differential between the counting methods.  On the Republican side the swing was: 10.383%.   The following is the differences between machine and hand tabulation. A positive is means they did better when votes were counted by machines.

I am certainly no Ron Paul supporter (I want Kucinich, or maybe Edwards). This is just raw information from the web. You decide what to make of it.

I want to just let the data reported here speak for itself. I got these links from comments on BradBlog. I have global HTML copies of these pages archived, just in case...

Here are the pages' URLs:

http://ronrox.com/paulstats.php?party=DE MOCRATS

http://ronrox.com/paulstats.php?party=RE PUBLICANS

Well, that's all folks.

Well, now it's happened in France. The winner, right-wing candidate Sarkozy, was the only candidate to support use of the machines:

A French e-voting "catastrophe"
By Jon Stokes | Published: April 24, 2007 - 01:56PM CT

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/200 70424-afrench-e-voting-catastrophe.html

One of the more controversial of America's exports has managed to unite factions from across France's political spectrum, with the major parties in France's hotly contested presidential election uniting to inform AFP that a "catastrophe" has taken place. No, I'm not talking about the opening of a new McDonald's. The catastrophe in question is an electronic voting catastrophe of the kind that occurred in a number of counties in America during this past November's mid-term elections.

In the few French cities that used the new electronic machines, the problems encountered were typical of what we've seen here in the US: malfunctions and complications that resulted in long lines at the polls and, ultimately, in voters who had to leave without voting. The technical glitches were compounded by some issues that appear to be specific to France. I'm talking about the elderly French's confusion and general distrust of the machines (as reported by the AFP), responses that are probably rooted in the country's long and cherished tradition of paper ballots and ballot box transparency--literally, the ballot boxes are see-through, and anyone can monitor them during an election to ensure that there's no funny business.

A Reuters report indicates that the Dutch models account for over 80 percent of the French e-voting machines, with the ES&S models making up the remainder. This being the case, I suppose it's not entirely fair to call e-voting an "American export," and indeed this distinction may answer the question of why no French farmer has yet to demolish a polling place with a tractor in protest.

So, riots have broken out all over France for a second night. Also see:

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/05 /359079.shtml

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/05 /359010.shtml

The first light shed on a developing Katherine Harris scandal arrived via Wayne Madsen Report this morning.

Katherine was the Florida secretary of state who stole the 2000 election from Al Gore. She "went on" to become a Florida Panhandle US Congresswoman, and now is running for a Florida US Senate seat.

Here are some interesting links:

TIME: New Ethics Probe

Katherine Harris Sucks

Katherine Harris For Senate

FOX: Katherine Harris Shakes Caricature