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Blogs Fuel Election Fraud Fears from Wired
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:11:50 -0500
Blogs Fuel Election Fraud FearsĀ By Kim Zetter Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65665,00.html 02:00 AM Nov. 10, 2004 PTSince the election, liberal blogs and discussion sites have been raising a ruckus over an analysis of Florida voting results that's been spreading on the internet, which shows President Bush received a much higher number of votes than the number of registered Republicans in many counties.
The analysis has led lawyers for the Democratic Party to look into allegations of fraud, and was cited in a letter sent by Democrats in the House of Representatives last week to the Government Accountability Office requesting an election investigation.
But academics at several universities, who received a flood of e-mail urging them to look into the matter, say the results are due to high numbers of Democrats in rural areas voting across party lines, and to independent voters who chose Bush in higher proportions to Sen. John Kerry.
The academics say the intense scrutiny has been good for democracy and has highlighted the need for instituting mandatory election audits that would help catch anomalies with voting machines and restore voter confidence in results. But Stanford University professor of government Jonathan Wand said the analysis can be harmful if done improperly.
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