Don’t the polling orgs keep a district by district breakdown of exit polls?

And another…

Would a FOI request get it out of them?

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Here are two questions I have. First, I don’t believe that the Clintons personally decided to hack into the machines. What is more likely to me is that there is a computer glitch OR that someone that stands to gain from a Clinton nominee did hack into the system. Could we did deeper for a connection?

My main question — How do we get this into the media forefront?? I have emailed and called and I am concerned with the lack of coverage on this story. This should be HUGE news and yet most people don’t know it exists. Any ideas on how we can start a movement for coverage?

This wouldn’t be the first time I have seen this. Being from Florida, I was dismayed when (following from Wikipedia):

“Reno ran for Governor of Florida in 2002, but lost in the Democratic primary to Bill McBride. Voting problems arose in the election, and she did not concede defeat until a week later.[9]”

Reno had incredible name recognition as the first female Attorney General (3/11/93 – 1/20/2001) but she “lost” the nomination to the relatively unknown Bill McBride. Jeb then “won” re-election as Governor.

This is first thing I thought about when the polls again were “wrong.” Then, when I saw the YouTube video from Black Box Voting and read about John Silvestro and LHS Associates “counting” 81% of the votes in N.H., it confirmed my doubts of yet another unfair election.

Polls did seem to have accurately accounted for Republicans in N.H. and for all of Iowa. The only discrepancy was Obama/Clinton.

Funny how before the bush administration, polls always seemed reliable. bush even claimed Ukrainian election must have been rigged because the voting results did not match the presumedly accurate polls.

Now, each surprise favors Republicans. How strange…

However, I must say this… I live in central NH and I volunteered in our small town to work on the voter checklist and to count votes on Tuesday evening. I’ve been doing this for over 15 years now, so you can see the trends happening as you start counting the votes.

Turnout was huge… we had almost 200 new voter registrations this week. Many, of them young people, but ‘lot’s’ of women, young and old. About 1,700 votes were cast in our town, so new voters made up about 10%-12% of the total. (Note: These people never got ‘polled’ in the lead up to the primary because they are ‘not’ on the voter checklist prior to election day.)

My counting partner and I counted 201 of the democratic (paper) ballots after the polls closed. I was hoping Obama would win, but the Clinton votes kept adding up.

At the end of the counting Clinton had 80 out of the 201 votes we hand counted… Obama had 63. That’s 40% to 32% in our small sampling. This ‘trend’ was pretty darn close to the final results.

925 Democratic ballots were cast in our town… Clinton got 37%, Obama 32%, Edwards 22%, and others got the rest.

As much as I’d like to blame it all on Diebold… and I don’t trust those machines for a minute… she beat him fair and square in our small town.

One other thing… if you look at the town by town results… look for Hanover & Lebanon (Dartmouth), Plymouth… (Plymouth State Univ), Durham (UNH), Henniker (N.E. College), New London (Colby Coll.) and Keene (Keene State College).

Obama carried those towns easily, but he didn’t do well in the mill towns like Berlin, Gorham, Franklin and other traditional blue collar communities.

The Obama kids were ‘jumpin,’ came to my house several times. My guess…they were dyin’ to fill out every survey and poll they could find!

Working Moms? Survey? Poll? “Sorry young fella…I just got out of work…I barely had time to vote…I’ve gotta get home and cook dinner, clean the house and get the kids ready for bed… no time for a silly exit poll.”