Bush's 'Incredible' Vote Tallies

• Florida Numbers Indicate a huge crossover of Democrats from Kerry to Bush - but only in counties that used computerized ballot scanners. [more]

George W. Bush's vote tallies, especially in the key state of Florida, are so statistically stunning that they border on the unbelievable. While it's extraordinary for a candidate to get a vote total that exceeds his party's registration in any voting jurisdiction -- because of non-voters -- Bush racked up more votes than registered Republicans in 47 out of 67 counties in Florida. In 15 of those counties, his vote total more than doubled the number of registered Republicans and in four counties, Bush more than tripled the number. Statewide, Bush earned about 20,000 more votes than registered Republicans. Similar surprising jumps in Bush's vote tallies across the country -- especially when matched against national exits polls showing Kerry winning by 51 percent to 48 percent -- have fed suspicion among rank-and-file Democrats that the Bush campaign rigged the vote, possibly through systematic computer hacking.

• Republican pollster Dick Morris said the Election Night pattern of mistaken exit polls favoring Kerry in six battleground states -- Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and Iowa -- was virtually inconceivable."Exit polls are almost never wrong," Morris wrote. "So reliable are the surveys that actually tap voters as they leave the polling places that they are used as guides to the relative honesty of elections in Third World countries. ... To screw up one exit poll is unheard of. To miss six of them is incredible. It boggles the imagination how pollsters could be that incompetent and invites speculation that more than honest error was at play here." [more]
• Palm Beach County Logs 88,000 More Votes Than Voters [more]