Quite a few counties in TX had highly suspicious results and Election Archive and Kathy Dopp have a summary of some of the most suspicious with sites to visit for corroboration.
Here's Kathy's take (please excuse the sloppy table. I haven't figure out how to make this come out right on a posting):
Dear Friends,
I forwarded you an email on yesterday's suspicious Texas primary election results but did not author it.
Here is my own take -
A FOLLOW-UP ON WHAT HAPPENED IN THE TUESDAY TEXAS PRIMARY ELECTION:
Did 21 counties in TX really have NO Republican voters?
Did 3 counties in TX really have NO Democratic voters?
Or did the voting machine software count the paper and the invisible e-ballots incorrectly?
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Check out the CNN and Texas Secretary of State web sites.
http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_135_race0.htmhttp://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_136_race0.htmhttp://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#TXHere is the list of voting machines used in TX by county:
http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/sysexam/voting-sys-bycounty.pdf-------------
Probably the virtually impossible TX vote counts were not caused by fraud, but WERE caused by human error.
(Human error is the only kind of election error since humans build and program the machines, the ballot definitions, and the databases used to count votes.)
The counties with zero vote counts for either the Republicans or the Democrats used a variety of voting machines:
ES&S optical scanners and digital recording electronic (DRE) voting machines, and also Hart DRE and optical scan voting machines.
Texas also uses Diebold voting machines, but no counties using Diebold voting machines had zero votes counted for the Republicans or Democrats.
In Washington State's February primary they counted some Republican ballots as Democratic ballots also in some counties - where voters whose names contained particular letters had their ballots counted as Democratic ballots, even though many of them had voted as Republicans
- so the vote counts there were inaccurate in the same manner as Texas' vote counts are most likely inaccurate.
If Republican ballots were all counted as Democratic ballots in 21 Texas counties, then extra votes were awarded to Clinton or to Obama depending on the corresponding ballot positions of Republican primary candidates as compared to Clinton or Obama's position on the ballots.
I.e. If ballots were counted incorrectly in those 24 TX counties, then both the Republican and Democratic vote counts were inaccurate in TX.
Washington state used ES&S optical scan voting systems and the database of voters was incorrect (and perhaps other databases as
well.) It will be interesting to see what causes are associated with the incorrect vote counts in TX, and whether or not the DRE vote counts, without a paper ballot record, can be corrected at all or not.
Election officials seem to have a tendancy for covering up problems with the vote counts rather than routinely detecting, exposing, and correcting the inevitable errors. It is surprising that election officials do not notice these type of errors until after election advocates point out the virtually impossible patterns of vote counts.
If the press reports this virtually impossible phenomenon in TX it is likely that Republican voters will come forward (or the voter registries can be examined) to find Republicans who voted in the 21 counties, as well as Dem voters in the 3 counties claiming zero Dem votes.
What common errors could have caused so many counties (21) in TX to show no votes for all voters of either the Democratic or Republican party?
There may be a common error among those counties in the way they programmed their voting machines which caused all voters' ballots to be counted for only one party.
PERHAPS:
1. these counties used the same consultant to program their electronic voter registration or electronic poll books which improperly listed all voters as belonging to the same political party?
or
2. these 24 TX counties hired the same consulting firm to program their voting machines.
or
3. the county election officials all forgot, or were not trained to, sort the ballots prior to counting them, or to program the voting machines correctly,
or
4. the poll workers made errors (Vendors and Election Officials typically blame election problems on poll workers.)
or
5. the voters forgot to fill out a bubble to indicate what political party their ballot was
or
6. the ballot printers of optical scan ballots forgot to print different bar codes on the Republican and Democratic ballots
Computers magnify human error and the ability to commit vote fraud by a thousand-fold.
For instance, the States of MA, NH, and CT all use the same company, LHS, to program all their optical scan machines, and CT found in conducting audits of the memory cards during the election, that a high percentage of memory cards contained junk and were improperly programmed.
In New York State, election officials "forgot" to record Obama votes on the reports they submitted from the polls to the central election office. In New Jersey, the voting machines malfunctioned and counted votes incorrectly.
It seems probable that Clinton and Obama were awarded extra votes in Texas that were meant for Republican candidates - and probably not in the same proportion as Democratic voters.
The TX primary election vote counts are obviously not accurate - not even TX popular vote counts are accurate in the 24 counties are showing that either no Republicans or alternatively that no Democrats voted.
It could be that ALL ballots were counted as Democratic in those 21 counties and that votes for certain Republicans were counted incorrectly as votes for certain Democrats (perhaps Clinton).
Here is an excellent article, very well written, by a historian on the phenomenon of how press already improperly reported on the TX primary election contest between Obama vs. Clinton:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/030608a.htmlI hope that press and TX election officials will investigate and uncover exactly what the problems were in TX and that TX election officials will try to correct the TX vote counts, rather than trying to convince the public that there were "no problems".
THE OTHER POSSIBILITY
is that ALL Texas Republicans crossed over in these 21 counties to try to influence the Democratic primary election. That would not be a flattering picture of Republican voters. Let's hope that was not the case.
Yet that would not explain the lack of any Democratic votes in 3 counties where there was not much reason for Democrats to cross-over and vote in the Republican primary.
The only way to know the cause(s) for this highly suspicious pattern in the Texas primary is to investigate all the more likely possibilities, that ballots were counted inaccurately, and eliminate it first.
Cheers,
Kathy
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Here is the Texas Vote Count Data for the 24 counties reporting zero votes for either Republicans or Democrats:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.
richardhayesphillips(AT)yahoo.com
March 5, 2008
Didn't anybody notice this?
It is now 24 hours after the polls closed in Texas.
In 21 counties, with 100% of precincts reporting, Nobody voted in the Republican presidential primary.
In 3 counties, with 100% of precincts reporting, Nobody voted in the Democratic presidential primary.
In the 21 counties with NO Republican voters, there were
87,919 registered voters, and
36,239 ballots cast,
all of them Democratic.
In the 3 counties with NO Democratic Voters, there were
5,212 registered voters, and
1,865 ballots cast,
all of them Republican.
In Maverick County,
ALL 9,661 ballots cast were Democratic.
In Hansford County,
ALL 1,235 ballots cast were Republican.
ONE-PARTY TEXAS COUNTIES, PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY, 2008
County xxx Registered Voters xxx Repub Votes xxx Dem Votes
Armstrong xxx 1404 xxx 369 xxx 0
Borden xxx 432 xxx 0 xxx 139
Brooks xxx 6385 xxx 0 xxx 3185
Cottle xxx 1230 xxx 0 xxx 471
Crockett xxx 2654 xxx 0 xxx 1166
Culberson xxx 1959 xxx 0 xxx 526
Dickens xxx 1410 xxx 0 xxx 612
Duval xxx 9331 xxx 0 xxx 5053
Foard xxx 1043 xxx 0 xxx 432
Hall xxx 2110 xxx 0 xxx 813
Hansford xxx 3101 xxx 1235 xxx 0
Hardeman xxx 2969 xxx 0 xxx 1086
Hudspeth xxx 1557 xxx 0 xxx 476
Kent xxx 665 xxx 0 xxx 250
La Salle xxx 4071 xxx 0 xxx 1392
Loving xxx 116 xxx 0 xxx 22
Maverick xxx 26224 xxx 0 xxx 9661
Reeves xxx 6337 xxx 0 xxx 2228
Roberts xxx 707 xxx 261 xxx 0
Stonewall xxx 1087 xxx 0 xxx 483
Throckmorton xxx 1175 xxx 0 xxx 513
Upton xxx 2139 xxx 0 xxx 823
Zapata xxx 7148 xxx 0 xxx 3190
Zavala xxx 7877 xxx 0 xxx 3718
But don't take my word for it. See for yourself.
http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_135_race0.htmhttp://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_136_race0.htmhttp://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#TXElection officials in the State of Texas have some explaining to do.
Richard Hayes Phillips is the author of the definitive book on the
2004 presidential election in Ohio
– "Witness to a Crime: A Citizens' Audit of an American Election."
For more information:richardhayesphillips(AT)yahoo.com
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Kathy Dopp
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