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Blogs Fuel Election Fraud Fears
By Kim Zetter
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65665,00.html
02:00 AM Nov. 10, 2004 PT
Since the election, liberal blogs and discussion sites have been
raising a ruckus over an analysis of Florida voting results that's been
spreading on the internet, which shows President Bush received a much
higher number of votes than the number of registered Republicans in
many counties.
The analysis has led lawyers for the Democratic Party to look into
allegations of fraud, and was cited in a letter sent by Democrats in
the House of Representatives last week to the Government Accountability
Office requesting an election investigation.
But academics at several universities, who received a flood of e-mail
urging them to look into the matter, say the results are due to high
numbers of Democrats in rural areas voting across party lines, and to
independent voters who chose Bush in higher proportions to Sen. John
Kerry.
The academics say the intense scrutiny has been good for democracy and
has highlighted the need for instituting mandatory election audits that
would help catch anomalies with voting machines and restore voter
confidence in results. But Stanford University professor of government
Jonathan Wand said the analysis can be harmful if done improperly.
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