More fraud vote evidence in Venezuela

OK, so this was shamelessly to grab your attention. But I was reading this article in the Wall Street journal as to how the tight election for Governor in Washington state is so close, so controversial, that there is talk that the courts might just cancel it and force a new election.

Here, an interesting excerpt:

In Washington state, the errors by election officials have been compared to the antics of Inspector Clouseau, only clumsier. At least 1,200 more votes were counted in Seattle's King County than the number of individual voters who can be accounted for. Other counties saw similar, albeit smaller, excess vote totals.

Imagine that! And the Carter Center was unmoved here when we saw more voters in some districts than people actually living in that district!!! And let´s not forget that they do not have FARC guerilla voting in Seattle.

But it gets better:

King County elections director Dean Logan, Mr. Huennekens' boss, also concedes the discrepancy between the number of ballots cast and the list of people who are recorded as voting. Even though the gap is 1,200 votes, he says, "that does not clearly indicate that the election would have turned out differently." Are voters supposed to trust an election merely because it can't "clearly" be shown to be hopelessly tainted?

Yes, indeed, are Venezuelan supporters supposed to trust an election merely because the Carter Center says that there is no need to count ballots? Because a lousy resentful shrink looks at us in the eyes from the TV to tell us that there is no fraud and if people keep talking of fraud he will take them to court.

But that is not all. Read and think of all the calculations made or reproduced by Venezuelan bloggers:

Much of the evidence uncovered on King County's flouting of election laws first appeared on Soundpolitics.com, a blog run by computer consultant Stefan Sharkansky. A former liberal who worked for Michael Dukakis in 1988, Mr. Sharkansky calls himself a "9/11 conservative mugged by reality." He uses his knowledge of statistics and probability to illustrate how unlikely some of the reported vote count changes are. He also uncovered the fact that in Precinct 1823 in downtown Seattle, 527, or 70%, of the 763 registered voters used 500 Fourth Avenue--the King County administration building--as their residential address. A full 61% of the precinct's voters only registered in the last year, and nearly all of them "live" at 500 Fourth Avenue. By contrast, only 13% of all of King County voters registered in 2004.

Gee, maybe I will write to that blogger! He will have a field day with the Venezuelan "irregularities".

But see, in the US there is a court system. There is an independent judiciary. There are liberals that are not sandalistas. There are people that think for themselves and value truth above everything.

But in the US there is also a now decrepit ex president that made a foundation that is actually doing now more bad than good and who lost any credibility somewhere between Florida and Caracas. He probably was sent to Palestine because the result there was known well in advance.

But in the US there is also political parties that fight hard, that do not give up and mostly that do not sell the fur before killing the beast. Today the GOP fights but it was the Dems in Minnesota in 1962 (see end of quoted article), both have real laws to hang on and real umpires to apply them. Not sold out thugs and lousy soldiers to apply their orders and cash at the register. Not an opposition who thinks that wishful thinking and Plan A are enough.