Deep In Snow / Stealing Elections

Rochester received something around 20" out of the snowstorm that went through yesterday. The kids were off school and it was very nice to have 4x4s to get around with, so our activities were not curtailed very much.

I like to read more than one book at a time, and finished up a couple of somewhat interesting ones in the last couple of days. The first one, "Stealing Elections" by John Fund brought out a number of things that the mainline media has never covered. First "Motor Voter", the first bill pushed through and signed by Bill Clinton in '92 mandated that requiring that drivers license bureaus and other government service outlets would register anyone applying and offer mail-in registration with no identification, and forbid government workers to challenge new registrants. This legislation is an invitation to fraud, but of course gets no discussion in the mainline media. The whole concept of absentee ballots as a way of voting is more prone to fraud, one can draw their own conclusions as to why Democrats find that to be an "acceptable risk".

The other fun discussion was about the FL election. All the focus has of course been on Democrats and media people trying to "prove that Bush stole the election". So far, not one of those attempts has found a way to show that Gore won. What has been missed (and generally stonewalled in the key counties) is any attempt to see if the Democrats had good reason to fear the election being stolen, since they were trying to steal it.

In Palm Beach county Bush was weaker than the Senate and House candidates, but the Democrats running got LESS votes than Gore. In Palm Beach county, Bush got less than 60% of the Republican votes, and had the lowest rates of votes among registered Republicans of all the counties in FL. It looks like 15K Republicans went to the polls in that county, and failed to vote for Bush ... OR? 

There were 19K over votes in Palm Beach county. An over vote is where the voter votes for more than one candidate for an office. Punch ballots have a notorious weakness that somehow has been missed by the general media. Take a stack of ballots and use a sharp object to punch through the hole for Gore. If it is already punched, no problem (for YOU), if it isn't punched you either just voted, OR, you created an over vote and invalidated a vote for another candidate (Bush).

But vote fraud never happens. Right?