posted by Kyle on Jan 10
After 25 dreadful hours of flying, I’m back in Antigua, enjoying the warm weather and STUDYING!!!!!!
I was quite disappointed with the New Hampshire results for Ron Paul. This doesn’t mean we stop fighting. As long as I live, I’ll never stop fighting for human liberty. This campaign will go on, and so will the freedom movement. The freedom movement is stronger now than ever, and it will only get stronger.
Those who know me know that I am no fan of conspiracy theories, and that I especially don’t like the “vote in sunshine” people who are using the Ron Paul campaign as a foil to push their own issue. The issue is a worthy one, but they are actually costing us votes. After the Iowa Straw Poll, they arrived at an insane conclusion that we had won and that our votes just hadn’t been counted. They based this on an “exit poll” which polled mainly Ron Paul supporters. Somebody didn’t take a statistics class in college!
I don’t like these conspiracy theories because they aren’t backed up with real evidence. I have received several dozen emails about voter fraud in New Hampshire. At first I ignored them, and then one caught my attention: a discrepancy between the hand counted ballot’s results and the machine counted results. To be fair, it could just be that there is a large difference in demographic between the hand counted counties and the machine counted counties, though it seems quite unlikely since 20% of the votes were counted by hand (this is a statistically significant percentage).
Before people jump on this and scream voter fraud: THIS IS NOT PROOF. This is a possibility. The best way to lose an argument is to overstate it. If you want to advance your cause, speak reasonably, and back up everything you say with evidence.
That being said, here is the evidence:
For the socialists:
Hillary Clinton, Diebold Accuvote optical scan: 40.121%
Clinton, Hand Counted Paper Ballots: 34.703%
Barack Obama, Diebold Accuvote optical scan: 35.756%
Obama, Hand Counted Paper Ballots: 38.785%
For the Republicans:
Mitt Romney, Diebold Accuvote optical scan: 33.044%
Romney, Hand Counted Paper Ballots: 25.536%
Ron Paul, Diebold Accuvote optical scan: 7.233%
Paul, Hand Counted Paper Ballots: 9.235%
This data is from: www.legitgov.org
I believe that this data is evidence enough to call for a complete recount of by hand. It is NOT enough evidence to accuse anyone of fraud. So don’t accuse anyone of fraud. Be responsible. Reason and evidence can be your friends–if you don’t ignore them.
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