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(9,654 posts)elections?
post 2 i linked to a bradblog article that shows voting results swinging wildly (by thousands) from the night of election to about a week later...the election officials can not explain it...so how do we know what was reported is ACCURATE?
the 30 plus year shift to the right corresponds with the introduction of blackbox voting machines and the electronic reporting of votes
before siegleman was prosecuted he had an election "stolen"
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Representative Bob Riley defeated Siegelman in his November 2002 reelection bid by the narrowest margin in Alabama history: approximately 3,000 votes. The result was controversial, as on the night of the election, Siegelman was initially declared the winner by the Associated Press. Later, a voting machine malfunction in a single county, Baldwin County, was claimed to have produced the votes needed to give Siegelman the election. When the malfunction was corrected, Riley emerged the winner. Democratic Party officials objected, stating that the recount had been performed by local Republican election officials after Democratic observers had left the site of the vote counting, thus rendering verification of the recount results impossible. The state's Attorney General, Republican Bill Pryor, affirmed the recounted vote totals, securing Riley's election. Pryor denied requests for a manual recount of the disputed vote in an opinion warning that opening the sealed votes to recount them would be held a criminal offense.[12]