3 - 2 - 1 - Bingo!
Bob Krumm has a crystal ball:
If Hillary Clinton ekes out a win over Barack Obama in New Hampshire after being down in the polls and dismissed by the pundits, you can bet that the word “DIEBOLD†will start to appear quite frequently next to the name Clinton.
And whattaya know? He was right!
However, for those in the media interested in actual concerns about the integrity of today’s NH Primary, we’d strongly recommend the following video primer. In it, you’ll learn that the Diebold optical-scan system used across most of New Hampshire (some 40% of precincts still count paper ballots by hand, at the precinct), can be easily rigged by insiders, and only if the paper ballots are properly audited by hand, in some fashion, can the results of the op-scanners be trusted in any way, shape or form.
Reporters would do well to take note, particularly given the tightness of the race at this hour on the Democratic side, between Obama and Clinton — curious, given the final Zogby polling numbers which were dead-on on the Republican side, but so far, seem wildly off on the Dem side. Zogby’s numbers had predicted an Obama blowout, 42/29 over Clinton.
And he’s not the only one. There’s this:
I don’t intend to sound off alarm bells, but the question does need to be asked, as we have seen signs of this in the past, such as in Ohio during the 2004 general election. I just spent the last two hours putting together a spreadsheet of the Democratic results of the NH primary for each town with almost all but a few towns reporting, and the results were somewhat surprising. (Note: This is also without including nearly 2500 write-ins due to time constraints.)
I say “somewhat” because some people will say this entirely foreseeable. What the informal statistics show is that Hillary Clinton received a 4.5% boost in towns using Diebold voting machines compared to towns that didn’t. Meanwhile, Obama was hurt in these towns showing a 2.5% decrease in the Diebold towns.
And another. I’m quite sure similar paranoid delusions will pop up all over the web over the next couple of days. Cadillac Tight is tracking Diebold conspiracy insanity on the nutroots sites so you don’t have to.
Maybe I’ll have to reassess karma. After fifteen years of the Clintons’ feeding nutty conspiracy nonsense, it’s come back to bite Hillary. How long will it be before the moonbats start speculating that Karl Rove is helping the Clintons here?
rightwingprof :: Jan.09.2008 :: '08, Wackjobs :: 1 Comment »
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