Author: Ed That Goes Ping

Creation Can Be Cruel

Hey, the guys at Answers In Genesis made Cruel Site of the Day this week!

I don’t work for the hosting company that hosts Answers In Genesis anymore, so I guess I could say whatever I want about them now, and talk about how it made me feel knowing that I was making a living helping them purvey their ideas.

Heck, I could probably even say whatever I like about the frequently-renamed business of Richard De Vos (once known as Amway), who largely funded that company, while I’m at it.

But I think I’ll save that for another time.

One of Many Pieces of Evidence of Vote Fraud Disputed

Wired News: Florida E-Vote Study Debunked — A lot of braindead sites like MetaFilter are trumpeting the fact that somebody disagreed with this analysis as some kind of “case closed” nail in the coffin.

In fact, this study was not the only reason to suspect fraud in the elections; well known mathematician John Allen Paulos (author of “Innumeracy”) points to another paper which suggests something is up, and the folks at verifiedvoting.org and blackboxvoting.org will be happy to point you to many other reasons to worry about whether we in fact still have a democracy.

And let’s not forget Keith Olbermann‘s work at MSNBC.

Incidentally, Olbermann and BlackBoxVoting agree that the “I was paid to fix the vote” whistleblower piece that’s making the rounds is just plain silly, to the point that it makes you wonder if it’s a Karl Rove style dirty trick to co-opt the outrage over actual evidence of vote fraud into a debunkable hoax about vote fraud and thereby destroy it.

Hey, it worked on Dan Rather….

Olbermann & Harris

Something weird is going on between Keith Olbermann, who is the only network journalist who is seriously covering the vote fraud situation, and Bev Harris, the most thorough and dedicated investigator of such fraud.

Harris has always struck me as completely with it, straightforward, sane. Olbermann (on the basis of what his staff has said about Harris) is writing her off as a freak.

Olbermann’s summary of the situation.

Harris’s summary of the situation.

Make of it what you will. I’m glad Olbermann is on the case, and I’m glad Harris is on the case, and I hope that they can help each other somehow.

BTW, check out Harris’s reaction to some people’s demands for voting reforms, and see if this squares with the idea of a screaming psycho activist:

  1. We’re not done yet.

  2. This is not the only election.

  3. The 2004 election was never audited. No one really knows whether it was accurate or not. No one really knows whether:

a. There was no fraud
b. There was a little fraud but it didn’t change the outcome
c. There was a lot of fraud and the wrong people were put in office

  1. It’s still about auditing.

a. To do an audit, you start with spot checks.
b. To do spot checks, you start with documents. Those are what Black Box Voting requested on Nov. 2, from 3,000 election jurisdictions. They are coming in now. Some locations are more cooperative than others.
c. If we do not audit, we will be asking the same questions over and over

  1. It’s time to get some answers. That’s what we are doing aT Black Box Voting.

  2. It is premature to recommend specific legislation. Though several voting integrity groups and so-called “experts” are trying to do that right now, no one really knows what the problems are yet. Before reinventing the wheel (again) we should finish some of the audits and investigations that need to be done.

She’s a lot more measured in her rhetoric than a lot of bloggers out there [blush]. She’s just all about getting the facts, as far as I can tell. I wonder what the heck really happened between her and Olbermann’s staff and why it turned out the way it did.