Tim Bishop's lead vanishes?

That close? Count the paper ballots by hand. (4.00 / 1)

There's a reason we have 'em.

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by: neroden @ Sun Nov 07, 2010 at 23:13:55 PM UTC

Agreed, count all the votes (0.00 / 0)

carefully, with both sides looking on.

Bishop was the tea partiers' No. 1 target this year in NY; hopefully he can pull it out.

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by: devtob @ Mon Nov 08, 2010 at 01:30:36 AM UTC

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money for lawyer (0.00 / 0)

on daily kos someone posted a diary asking for donations to pay for legal issues on a recount.

www.johnboehnerwheresmyjob.com

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by: Renie57 @ Mon Nov 08, 2010 at 02:24:56 AM UTC

The Retainer's Too Damn High! (0.00 / 0)

Bring lawyers, guns, and money!

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by: Soundpolitic @ Mon Nov 08, 2010 at 13:25:14 PM UTC

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Error in call-in (0.00 / 0)

http://aol.it/ad2Exx
http://bit.ly/94QcJw

Appears to have been a good old fashioned error in the reporting (by phone) of the results by election inspectors.  Nothing to do with the mechanism of voting.  The error was realized during the routine (required by law) recanvass of the machines.

And there may even be a full 100% hand count of the actual paper ballots marked directly by the voter. Something that would be impossible if NYS had gone with the touch screen electronic voting machines or stayed with the sacred, fabled (but impossible to verify) lever machines.

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by: Bernesebernese @ Mon Nov 08, 2010 at 04:45:11 AM UTC

As I posted 2 years ago... (0.00 / 0)

The process for gathering those numbers is riddled with potential errors:

Results are read off of machines by Person A to Person B who writes them down. Person B calls the BOE and reads - over the phone - the results to Person C at the BOE, who writes them down. Person C gives the sheet to person D who types them into a computer.

10 chances for error:
Person A misreads
Person A misspeaks
Person B mishears
Person B miswrites
Person B misreads
Person B misspeaks
Person C mishears
Person C miswrites
Person D misreads
Person D mistypes

I've seen numbers change by 500 votes in one precinct because of this "telephone game" style of election reporting. Starting tomorrow, these results will be reviewed an corrected at every stage. Look for swings in vote counts.

http://www.thealbanyproject.co...

Nothing has changed with the new machines, just a different thing to read the same mistakes off of in step 1.

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by: Amherst Guy @ Mon Nov 08, 2010 at 05:01:47 AM UTC

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They are trying to Steel this election (0.00 / 0)

38% of the first CD's 460 election districts reported numbers by phone to the BOE that differed from the machine totals. How do 4 in 10 inspectors get it wrong? Altschuler campaign opposes a manual recount of the ballots! Surprise! Surprise! Bishop will get a recount.

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by: politics64 @ Mon Nov 08, 2010 at 14:35:29 PM UTC

Where does the 38% figure come from? (0.00 / 0)

That's staggering, if true.

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by: Lead Dog @ Tue Nov 09, 2010 at 18:24:42 PM UTC

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