MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann will again report on voter
irregularities tonite on Countdown(see below). This news program is seen by
nearly 2.5 million viewers nightly.
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From: "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" <MSNBC_Olbermann_NewsMail@MSNBC.COM>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 12:15 PM
Subject: Smells Like Voter Spirit
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Tonight on Countdown
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Why should voters go gently into that good night?
Decide for yourself.
But here's the problem. It is multi-part.
Sometimes there where more votes than voters (Keith's blog: Cuyahoga County,
Ohio. In 29 precincts there, the County's website shows, we had the most
unexpected results in years: more votes than voters.)
Sometimes the votes skewed wildly against the known party affiliation.
(Keith's blog: 29 of those Florida counties had large Democratic majorities
among registered voters but produced landslides for President Bush. )
Sometimes the machines simply screwed up -- the instances where these
problems were caught and fixed are how we know this.
The Los Angeles Times today mentioned some of the problems, and alluded to
the growing blogosphere that will not let this story go.
If you want to know the facts behind all this, and why Keith vigorously
pursues it, read his blog, and watch Countdown all this week.
As for that L.A. Times piece, here's a chunk.
"David Dill, a Stanford University computer expert, said that based on
reports that Dill's organization - Verified Voting.org - has received, one
precinct in Youngstown, Ohio, recorded a negative 25 million votes, which
was discarded from official results. And it was widely reported after Nov. 2
that a North Carolina precinct lost 4,000 votes when a recording device used
up all its memory but voters continued to cast ballots on the machine."
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/2004/la-na-ohio9nov09,1,6497338.story?c
oll=la-news-elect2004
Keith blogs:
"Representative John Conyers of Michigan... now leads a small but growing
group of Democratic congressmen who've written the General Accountability
Office demanding an investigation of what we should gently call the
Electronic Voting Angst. Conyers insisted he wasn't trying to re-cast the
election, but seemed mystified that in the 21st Century we could have
advanced to a technological state in which voting- fine, flawed, or
felonious- should leave no paper trail. ... By actual rough count, between
the 8 p.m. ET start of the program and 10:30 p.m. ET last night, we received
1,570 e-mails (none of them duplicates or forms, as near as I can tell).
1,508 were positive, 62 negative." Read the whole blog...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/
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While the above may be, in part, a summary of what Keith covered in the top
of yesterday's Countdown, consider it a primer for tonight. There's more.
Some of the other stories we're working on for tonight's show:
* U.S. forces reach center of Fallujah. 14 Americans killed in fighting over
2 days in city, elsewhere. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6403689/
* More on Bush's cabinet shift.
* Mo Rocca.
Finally,
A case of dirty, dirty laundry. Italy's tough anti-Mafia investigators were
mystified as to how imprisoned mob boss Leonardo Vitale continued to run the
"family business" from jail. The writing was not on the wall, so to speak,
but it was right in front of their faces, when they finally chose to look.
Turns out Vitale had been smuggling messages out with laundry given to
visiting relatives. When investigators finally caught on, the information
produced a bonanza. 300 officers, aided by helicopters and police dogs,
arrested 24 people in connection with an extortion ring, including Vitale's
wife.
OK, OK, but can we get back to that LAUNDRY thing?
Now... why was the prison letting Vitale send his laundry out?
If we find out, we'll let you know.
-- Carey Fox
Countdown Home: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/
More:
The special trials established to determine the guilt or innocence of
prisoners at the U.S. military prison in Cuba are unlawful and cannot
continue in their current form, a federal judge ruled yesterday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6439319/
While Senator John F. Kerry is "profoundly disappointed" with losing his
presidential race last week, it is "conceivable" he will run again in four
years, his brother and political confidant, Cameron F. Kerry, said.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/11/09/kerry_run_in_08_called
_conceivable/
Scientists say changes in the earth's climate from human influences are
occurring particularly intensely in the Arctic region, evidenced by the
widespread melting of glaciers, thinning sea ice, and rising permafrost
temperatures.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2004/11/09/scientists_
warn_arctic_is_warming_quickly/
Burt Reynolds sued a former girlfriend, alleging that she was threatening to
falsely accuse him of abuse if he didn't pay millions of dollars in
extortion. The lawsuit, filed Monday, says Pamela Seals falsely accused
Reynolds of yelling at her and stomping on her toes.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-gen/ap/Movies/Burt_Reynolds_Lawsuit.
html