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Explicit Statistical Evidence of Massive Ballot Tampering

The following items are summarized from a posting by Robert Cook, a nuclear engineer who has done a statistical analysis of the 19 thousand double-punched ballots in Florida that seems to indicate intentional fraud.

Mr. Cook begins his posting with this statement:

Statistical evidence establishes beyond reasonable doubt that 19,120 Presidential race ballots were destroyed by deliberate double-punching ballots in Palm Beach County FL with a “second punch” for Al Gore or Pat Buchanan. (In 1996, an additional 15,000 Dole and Perot ballots were destroyed by double-punching presidential ballots in Palm Beach County, FL.)

His claims include the following:

  • The national error rate of double-punching ballots is less than 1/2 of one percent (0.5%), which would have been 1,800 ballots in Palm Beach County—but there were instead over 19,000 double-punched ballots (many of them had both Democrat candidate Al Gore and Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan punched) This is ten times greater than any other reported double-punching error rate in any county in the US using paper punch ballots.
  • Many Democrats have been insisting that these votes must clearly have been intended for Gore, since Buchanan didn’t get that many votes anywhere else in nearby Florida counties, and blame the staggered “butterfly” ballot used in this county, but this ignores the fact that 15,000 double-punched ballots were invalidated in Palm Beach County during the 1996 presidential election, and also ignores the fact that large numbers of double-punched ballots were invalidated elsewhere (in Chicago, IL and Duval County in Florida, and none of these areas used the “butterfly” ballot.
  • “ONLY in Palm Beach did this ‘double punch’ error happen ONLY in the Gore-Bush-Buchanan selections for President. (In a truly random ‘error,’ the mistakes happen in every race, all at about the same rate. In Palm Beach, the massive errors (over 19,000) ONLY happened in the Presidential race.)”
  • “ONLY in Palm Beach did Gore GAIN 750 votes in a recount. In 50 out of 67 counties in FL, the actual change in the recount was 5–7 votes, and in 63 out of 67 counties, the total change was less than 30 votes either way. Further, in 63 out of 67 counties the ‘changes’ were somewhat evenly divided between ALL the candidates, in rough proportion to the original number of votes. This is the statistically expected result, and represents a true and legal recount of the ballots without any change in the ballots themselves.”
  • “This means that Palm Beach FL had an error rate in favor of Gore more than 120 TIMES greater than any other county, (Two other heavily Democratic ‘inner city’ counties (Flagler and Pinellas) had changes greater than 400 votes. Whether or not fraud existed in those counties is possible, but not analyzed here.) In a statistically valid recount, half of the errors would favor Bush, and half favor Gore. This extreme change from the normal in only three counties shows massive ‘tampering’ towards Gore in those three counties between the original machine count (already tainted by fraud.) and the second machine recount.”
  • “ONLY in Palm Beach County do the smaller (Congressional) races outdraw the Presidential race. Again, the number of total Republican votes ‘missing’ (not counted in the presidential race) is equal to 15,000 Bush votes destroyed by double punching in the Presidential race.—The only way this could occur is if 15,000 registered Republican voters went to the polls, and ‘forgot’ to cast their votes for president, or were ‘confused’ and voted twice for President but did NOT replace their ballot at the polling booth; while remembering to correctly and accurately punch 15,000 votes for the Republican Congressional candidate in their district.”
  • “ONLY in Palm Beach did Buchanan get less than HALF the of votes he received before in 1996. Buchanan’s ‘lost’ votes in that county in 2000 were much greater than in any other district in Florida. (Buchanan received over 8,000 votes in 1996 Republican PRIMARY (where only registered Republicans can vote; but he received only 3,407 under the Reform Party from ALL voters in the 2000 Presidential election. (Pat Buchanan has relatives who lives in Palm Beach County, and this local support greatly increase the number of local voters who choose Buchanan, compared to every other region of the country. There are over 14,551 members of the Reform party in Palm Beach County—which indicates that less than 1/5 of the Reform voters voted for their own candidate. The Fraud is NOT whether Gore voters were ‘confused’ and voted for Buchanan, but rather WHY Reform Party and Libertarian voters were prevented from registering THEIR vote!)”