in the nows

this from a list-serv. (name removed to protect privacy)

> The difference between the exit polls released at
> 5PM Eastern time (Kerry winning by a lot) and the
> hideous outcome this evening is striking.
>
> One could ask: is there any difference between the
> exit poll / final result discrepancy in
> 1. Precincts that have verifiable votes
> (such as paper ballots and eVoting with a paper
> trail and
> 2. Precincts that have no way to verify
> results (using suspect tools such as Diebold
> eVoting machines).
>
> Well, guess what, a poster in a progressive blog
> has done a quick test and - lo and behold - in
> precincts where the votes are verifiable, the
> votes fall within the margin of error. But in
> precincts where you cannot verify the vote guess
> what? Bush amazingly gets a five point bump above
> the exit polls. John Kerry would win the
> Presidency handily with those 5 percentage points.
> I am hoping that Mr. Kerry's people pick up on
> this.
>
> You can read this astonishing discussion at
> http://tinyurl.com/7yry6. This story is something
> that may or may not unfold over the next few days.
> I sure hope it does. The fact is, through nearly
> 30 years of exit polling that I remember, the exit
> polls were spot on. The exit polls called it
> corrrectly in FLA in 2000 - the newspapers
> reported that over 100,000 legal 'over-votes' did
> not get counted. (Nearly 80,000 of those were for
> Gore.)
>
> Our democracy has been stripped away by the
> eVoting machines - this is where the fight begins.
>