ALL: I withdraw my comments regarding John Fund unconditionally. I was wrong & went off half-cocked on a guy that is really one of the best in the biz.
Here's my beef: We are getting what I see as half-stories out of Ohio, Florida, New Mexico, and other states. Some have substance many are total BS. The big deal in the WaTi story is the Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron. Not the 100 proven frauds so far.
Regarding the stats issue re: 6 sigma. We must remember two things here: 1) the total vote count is about 745k votes; 2) the provisionals are by default the most suspect of them all. I don't have stats on how many provisionals typically get tossed, but the % isn't small.
Regarding New Mexico politics and the corners (Farminton/Ship Rock): I would expect that if there is a big fat smoking dem gun anywhere in the state it would be there...not the SE part of the state (Dona Ana).
Looking back at the Elephant Butte scandal there's plenty of room for trouble in SE, I'm just saying corruption and systematic voter fraud have different characteristics.
But of course that is just my opinion.
dung.
In philly 100K welcome voter registration cards were mailed out by the gop ( why not the fed gov?) 10K came back as undeliverable. PEople were voting regular, then provisional. We are only seeing a tiny slice-- BOTH in % coverage and methods - which are numerous.
Usually that is correct. However, in this case it's the other way around.
From greyfoxx39:
"In reading the Journal this morning, I see that 75% of the 13,000 provisionals in Bernalillo county and 66% of the 734 in Sandoval are being classified as valid."
(http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/profiles?location=79)