[traderrob6]

They were in too much of a hurry to get out the "good news"

[AxelPaulsenJr]

The study like their football team appears to be a little over rated.

[facedown]

Hot link

[dead]

Any link or actual story?

I think this is the study that the professor was updating almost hourly for the benefit of his audience over at DU.

That was his substitute for "peer review", and they consider him a serious scientist.

[Izzy Dunne]

It doesn't matter that the results were wrong - they made a good effort.

< /sarcasm >

[TexasGreg]

Regardless of the merits of the Berkeley study, Stewart said valid questions about the election results in Florida and elsewhere remain unanswered.

Yes, indeed, like why a significant number of democrats feel they have the right to vote 3 times (absentee, early, and provisional); or in 2 different states (New York and Florida); or in multiple counties (as in Ohio). But ... NO ... they won't look at that!!!!!

[traderrob6]

The far left wing "fishing for a result" NAAWWWW

[rightwinggoth]

Is this 'Berkely" supposed to be UC Berkeley or the Berklee School of Music?

[Boundless]

They won't ever let this go. Here's another grasp,
promoting an alleged protoype as a deployed scam
(caution: barking moonbat site).

In sworn affidavit, programmer says he developed
vote-rigging prototype for Florida congressman;
Congressman’s office silent
http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=477

So far, the story only been picked up by an e-tabloid,
The Inquirer:
Programmer developed vote rigging code, claim
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20090

Frankly, dumping machine and electronic voting, and
using only mark-sense paper, would be fine with me,
and we might even get the Dems to agree.

[GOP_1900AD]

It's Berkeley, not Berkely. (But in fact, it's unofficially Berserkely!)

[Atomicfever]

A once over on the article, makes me wonder if there was an evil Republican plot to put the brand new voting machines in counties that had a forcasted high Republican turn out...

Or maybe there was just a higher number of people who couldn't understand those new fangled voting machines, which was much more complex than a simple butterfly ballot, and more people pushed the wrong button this time...

[The Electrician]

I had exchanged several emails with Professor Hout, taking him to task for not acknowledging that the anomalies revealed by his statistical analysis could be best explained by the strong likelihood that Democrats in Palm Beach, Dade, and Broward counties had inflated Gore's vote totals in 2000 through punched-card ballot fraud, and that the use of electronic voting machines in 2004 had forestalled that method of fraud, leading to an apparent surge in Bush votes over what his model had predicted for those counties. Instead, Hout's publically-reported comments talk about explanatory factors such as software or firmware errors in the electronic voting machines, and he left open the possibility that deliberate fraud (by voting machine manufacturers, perhaps) might have been involved, all of which are substantially less likely than the punched-card vote fraud explanation.

As expected, and as is evident from Hout's dismissal of the academic criticism (in the Wired article), Hout has refused to acknowledge any such possibility. It's evidence of a stunning lack of intellectual honesty, let alone a lack of intellectual curiosity on the part of a "professor", but evidently that's what is to be expected from a "Berkeley professor".

[Psycho_Bunny]

I was talking to one of these Conspirazoids the other day at lunch.  I shut her up by pointing out that (here in Washington) we overwhelmingly went for Kerry and sent Patty Murray back to the Senate but on the same ballots, apparently elected a Republican Governor.

Did the Evil Republics allow the Kerry and Murray votes to stand but were somehow able to magically defraud the governorship vote, or are there really "anomalies" in voting?

[rightwinggoth]

Is this 'Berkely" supposed to be UC Berkeley or the Berklee School of Music?

[longtermmemmory]

This "study" was probably prepared BEFORE the election.

Remember the DNC had talking points lined up to claim "stollen" for any close Bush victory.

The left's best maximum results were outclassed by Republican VOLUNTEER turnout. They were not prepared for a decisive victory of over 4 MILLION votes.

[Guillermo]

It's not the nature of the evidence, but the seriousness of the charge.

Bottom line: Bush stole Florida, and needs to prove he did not.

[shield]

These conspiracy nuts have bought this BS hook, line and sinker. Poor poor idoits, grabbing at straws again...so what's new...they appear to be mindless, mind controlled zombies!!! chasing after every conspiracy out there. ;o)

[NewLand]

A study by Berkely grad students and a professor...

Commissioned by George Soros and enforced by Craig Livingstone? What a joke these loony-Dems have become.

[SpinyNorman]

Another case of Ratheritis.

Must have been grad students in home economics.

[blackdog]

It's Clintonista tactics, eau classique'.

The more advocacy groups at the DNC's direction can muddle up the horizon, the more difficult it becomes to prosecute liberals and the DNC for voter fraud, election law violations, and much more.......Including Hillary's 2000 senate campaign finances which have been getting some attention lately.

Accuse your opponent of exactly what you are in fact guilty of and it innoculates you against prosecution.