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Bev Harris - This game is called "Make the other guy concede by mistake"
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This game is called "Make the other guy concede by mistake."
Prompt action makes all the difference. It won't be the only game. It may not be the most important one. But put it on your radar because it's real.
In the following two cases an artificial total was announced along with pressure to hurry up and concede.
THE PATTERN:
- Election flipped
- Winner called by mistake
- Votes slipped in and out of temporary pockets.
- Candidate pressured to concede based on false results
- In each case, false votes were injected in a small out-of-the-way county.
- In each case, false totals were exactly the amount needed to call the election.
- In each case, frenzied demands to concede followed the wrong election call.
- In each case, there were calls for recounts but the damage had been done. A presumptive winner claimed to be the victor, casting the other candidate as crooked or a loser.
- In each case, the false result was never explained at all by anyone.
- In each case, the false total was later removed. But if either candidate had conceded, it would have been moot.
DETAILS:
Example 1: Alabama, Baldwin County, Don Siegelman v. Bob Riley governor's race, 2002: 6,334 votes were added to Don Siegelman's total, producing more votes than voters.
Example 2: Florida, Volusia County, Bush v. Gore 2000: Minus 16,000 votes were injected into Al Gore's total.
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BALDWIN COUNTY AL: Pocket to pocket - Thousands of votes oddly appeared for a little-known Libertarian candidate named John Sophocleus. Also, an astonishing 13,935 "write-in votes" popped up in a state senate race.
VOLUSIA COUNTY FL: Pocket to pocket - Temporarily, over 10,000 votes showed up for the Socialist Worker Party candidate, more votes than that party received nationwide.
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ALABAMA - As that night wore on, votes from large urban areas were slow to come in and the pressure hit Baldwin County to report. And so it did, a bogus result with nonexistent votes.
FLORIDA - John Ellis, hired as an analyst for Fox TV News, knew exactly the margin needed to call the 2000 presidential race for Bush. He was privy to Voter News Service data, and he spoke several times during the evening to his two cousins: Jeb and George W. Bush.
At 2:09 a.m., the required vote margin appeared from Volusia County. At 2:10 a.m., this margin was enhanced by 4,000 false votes in Brevard County. At 2:16 a.m., Ellis called the race for Bush. Within four minutes, NBC, CBS and ABC followed suit.
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ALABAMA - Siegelman promptly declared victory based on 6,334 impossible votes. He continued to refer to himself as "governor" long after the result had been corrected and the race declared for Riley.
FLORIDA - Under pressure, not knowing that the seemingly insurmountable lead was based on 20,000 false votes, Al Gore called George Bush to concede.
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ALABAMA - A squad of Democratic lawyers showed up at the Baldwin County courthouse. By this time it was known that the 6,334 votes were incorrect.
"They were just insistent; they were going to go out there and certify those totals before there was any chance to look into this," said the probate judge whose duties included overseeing elections.
FLORIDA - While on his way to make a speech to concede to the nation, Gore learned of the Florida anomaly and withdrew his concession. He was just 500 votes behind and the race was too close to call.
Howls of anger erupted from the Bush campaign.
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