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Did Harry Reid Steal the Election?

A friend writes: “Reid stole the election in Nevada, in my book: 40,000 votes separated the two.  They had a con going where people in Clark County who cast votes for Angle had them turn into Reid votes.  So for each vote theft, Reid got a twofer: all they needed, in Clark and one other county, was to tamper with 20,000 ballots to make the spread 40,000.  Tom, there is no possible way, mathematically, for the most-polled race in probably the history of the Senate, with an average poll reading of Angle +2%, to go haywire with a race that was trending her way in the last four days.  This is mathematically IMPOSSIBLE.  He stole 20k votes and seems to be going unchallenged.”

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  • Dave P.

    Then it’s definitely up to Angle to demand a recount and challenge these results from every angle. If that doesn’t happen, then the people deserve to have Harry Reid.

  • Rob P.

    Tom,

    What I also find interesting is the Senate race in Alaska. Joe Miller appears to have been trounced in a “write-in” effort by the very statist that he beat in the primary…

    http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/results/alaska

    And John Dennis only managed a little over 14%?

    Its one big club and we ain’t in it. Thinking we need a private island…

    For Liberty,

    Rob

  • Brian Brady

    @Rob What astounds me about John Dennis is that he was the only pro-peace candidate in that race. I wonder often about the intelligence of fellow Californians to the north but San Franciscans are, if nothing else, decidedly anti-war.

    It’s nice to read that I’m not the only one who is (not so) silently wondering about Nevada and Alaska. I only feel a little bit crazy now

  • http://jasonsouthwell.com Jason Southwell

    Here in Clark County we use electronic voting machines that print a receipt of the recorded vote. Since it wasn’t a manual tally, I don’t see how it could have been tampered with unless the machines themselves were hacked to report the wrong numbers. The reported two for one swap just doesn’t sound likely at all unless it was done in a county without these electronic voting machines, and there just aren’t that many counties with much more than 20k+ votes in Nevada.

  • http://houlgatecollegefootballrankings.com John Houlgate

    @Brian: San Franciscans are hard-wired to vote for the establishment Democrat. Don’t kid yourself. Cindy Sheehan ran against Pelosi in 2008 and Pelosi won by a wider margin than She did over Dennis. The most they will do for a peace candidate is listen to them respectfully, nod their heads in agreement to the message, but when it comes time to pull the trigger, they will vote for whoever the Democratic Party tells them to.

    Unions are very strong in that city. They pretty much run it.

  • Jason

    @ Jason Southwell: check out the following video (part 1 of 5): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSe24deOpUY
    I watched another youtube video that was of the Ohio state congressional inquiry about the diebold machines after the 2000 election and they had a programmer in there that said he could hack them very easily and no one would know unless someone went thru the 100,000 lines of code.

  • Keith Hamburger

    There was a situation in Clark County back in the 1980′s where a Libertarian candidate lost to a Democrat and claimed vote fraud caused her to lose the race. After several months in court the judge determined that was actually the case but said that because the Democrat was already seated nothing could be done about it.

  • http://jasonsouthwell.com Jason Southwell

    I wasn’t saying that electronic voting machines can’t be hacked, only that the explanation here of how the fraud was perpetrated did not seem logical.

  • http://tomwoods.com Pam McConnell

    What if a site was dedicated on Facebook for each State, say, for all who voted for a certain candidate to note it there? Even if it was a rough guess-timate, there’d at least be SOME kind of accounting for all this voter fraud! This could be a really hot way to rally people!

  • Vincent Palmeri

    I live in Las Vegas and was very confident that Angle would win by around 6%. I obviously underestimated the union vote. I know first hand that MGM and Harrah’s properties, approximately 16 casinos between the two companies, offered transportation for people to go vote. My girlfriend, who is a cocktail waitress at Harrah’s, was actually registered to vote by her union rep. When my girlfriend said that she is a libertarian, the rep filled out democrat anyway.

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