There were also anomalies in the Republican results, but polls in that case proved more accurate.
Freeman suspects foul play by others to create Clinton’s victory.
The “live free or die” state does have a history of unexpected election results. The small firm LHS counts 87 percent of the votes there (and throughout much of the rest of New England) and handles most of the rest of those elections.
Now the optical scanners used by New Hampshire voters were the same ones easily hacked in the HBO documentary Hacking Democracy. And the hackers can produce any results they wish to.
In the case of this primary, machine tallies gave the victory to Clinton, while all hand-counted tallies went to Obama. Exact results are accessible at the sites bradblog.org or elecinteg.org. But even controlling for other variables, including New Hampshire’s past electoral history, the evidence is strong for a fix, said Freeman.
LHS uses its own software to tabulate results, in secret with its own proprietary software. Freeman compared this to a person taking all paper ballots used to vote into a back room, counting them there behind a closed door, and then reporting the results to the people.
“The American election processes are flawed,” he said. This was a “do or die” primary for Clinton. The best verification of election results are exit polls and there, too, Obama prevailed.
What is worse, a consortium of media have data they refuse to release, which he called a monumental crime, one that the mainstream media aren’t covering. The recount that will be done in New Hampshire will require two weeks, during which there will be plenty of time to match the initial results.
Since there is no confirmation that the original results were accurate, the sponsor of the recount, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) might well be wasting his money. Freeman said that such a “match” occurred in Arizona, where investigation revealed foul play.
+++++What is equally preposterous, said Bruce O’Dell, the next guest, is that someone has to pay a fortune for the recount of only the two largest Democratic counties in New Hampshire. The Republicans will consider the entire state in their recount.
He echoed Freeman’s consternation at the “huge anomalies” between the hand count and the computerized total. In the case of one county, he said, hand and opscan counts matched, for Obama and Edwards.
A pattern became apparent elsewhere of opscans switching from Edwards and Obama to Clinton, which of course warrants “significant investigation.”
O’Dell recommended counting one out of every ten votes in New Hampshire, a statistically valid method that would have been less problematic. He recommends more hand counting there in election 2008.
Quoting from his book Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count, Freeman reiterated that the safeguards on slot machines in Las Vegas are far more vigilantly monitored that voting tabulations in this country. Need anyone say more?
Fraud is more likely in a primary than in a general election—there is more fighting within political parties than between them.
What carries the day? Money, media, and how the votes are counted.
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