Blogs Fuel Election Fraud Fears from Wired

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Blogs Fuel Election Fraud Fears 
By Kim Zetter



Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65665,00.html


02:00 AM Nov. 10, 2004 PT


Since 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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