Reply #26: projection much?

[OnTheOtherHand]

As far as I can tell, the premise of your OP is to dismiss people out of the gate. Take that away, and there isn't much left. Ready to start over? OK, let's do it.

No, you've added a lot more words, but I still can't tell what you're saying. Basically it seems to boil down to this: you know lots of people who are convinced that the election was stolen. OK. I know lots of people who think it wasn't. Moving on....

As I must assume you know, most of Ohio voted on punch cards in 2004. At what point did you determine that punch cards are "quite literally designed for fraud," and based on what evidence?

All trends and exit polls showed Kerry winning...

That is buncombe. There was no clear trend in Ohio; seven of the last eight pre-election polls put Bush (slightly) ahead there. (I'm counting the final polls from Opinion Dynamics, Zogby, Strategic Vision, Survey USA, Gallup, U Cincinnati, Rasmussen, and Mason-Dixon.) There was one exit poll in Ohio, which showed the election too close to call. I do know a thing or two about the exit poll controversy.

then, mysteriously, the tabulating servers and the SoS server went down. When they came back up again, the results had been reversed.

O RLY? What does this mean, "the results had been reversed"? (For that matter, what are "the tabulating servers," and how do you know they "went down"?) Are you asserting that the early returns showed Kerry ahead, but then at some time all the Kerry votes went to Bush and vice versa? Pray tell, what was that time? and what is your supporting evidence?

We can't consider causes of a "remarkably improbable anomaly" until someone demonstrates the existence of the remarkably improbable anomaly. I do hope I'm not losing you.