Bob Shrum comments on speculation of voting problems in The Hill

[Pirate Smile]

Election speculation continues

Looks like even some of Sen. John Kerry’s (D-Mass.) top advisers are getting reeled in by the rampant speculation among Democratic activists on the Web who think that Republicans may have rigged the election.

Reporters have been besieged by e-mailed pleading from liberals and Democrats who want an investigation of electronic voting machines in Florida and Ohio, for which there is no auditable paper record of votes cast through them.

Speculation burned even hotter last week when The Associated Press reported that an electronic voting system error gave President Bush nearly 4,000 extra votes in suburban Columbus.

Bob Shrum, a senior adviser to the Kerry campaign, gave some credence to conspiracy theorizing.

“I think there are a lot of weird things going on,” Shrum told reporters Monday, echoing an assertion made by several Democratic cyberactivists. “Some weird things. Why are the exit polls more accurate in states with paper ballots than in states with machines?”

Of course, Shrum may be quick to latch onto technological explanations for Kerry’s performance rather than alternative theories, namely that his campaign staff wasn’t up to snuff.

http://www.hillnews.com/under_dome/111004.aspx

I thought it was interesting. There are a couple of other interesting tidbits on that page.

[aquart]

1. Uh huh.

I love the nice feel of abandonment when the going gets rough.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. hmmmm..... the plot thickens

[HEAVYHEART]

3. Interesting..

[Sade]

Maybe now

that some of the campaign fatigues wearing off, these guys will have the energy to start taking this on...

[glitch]

4. OMG - you mean they might actually get it??

"“I think there are a lot of weird things going on,” Shrum told reporters Monday, echoing an assertion made by several Democratic cyberactivists. “Some weird things. Why are the exit polls more accurate in states with paper ballots than in states with machines?”"

[Eloriel]

6. Yeah, this is a MAJOR development that they're paying ANY attn

Thank heaven.

[kayell]

5. "Of course, Shrum may be quick to latch onto technological explanations"

"rather than alternative theories, namely that his campaign staff wasn’t up to snuff."

Yeah, right, cause that really answers the question about variations in paper trail and peper trail-less states.

Gotta love our journalists.

[KoKo]

7. Okay....and remember what Gore went through in 2000? Where were they

at that time...hey...they thought they could "roll us" a second time...but now we are doing "the Resistance" and they have to come up out of their "hidey holes" and talk about it????????????:puke: for Dem Operatives who have NO sense of HISTORY!

[SoCalDem]

8. Gee Bob, did you finally get a clue??

Perhaps the democratic party "leaders" should have paid a little more attention to the PROCESS ...when it could have helped..

They should have taken a page from the repubes, and started hollering about rigging electronic machines BEFORE we voted.. If the shoe were on the other foot, you can bet the repubes would have "raised the issue"..

The salient point in the whole mess is the CONFLICT OF INTEREST between repubes and the companies who make the machines, hold the code secret, and then count the damned vapor-votes..

It REEKS !!!!

But the stink must be raised PRE-EMPTIVELY...not after you have been declared the loser..:grr:

The tirade should have continued with the media who eagerly posted every red state they could imagine to *'s vote total, so that he NEVER trailed..even though they could have posted blue states to Kerry, they did not..

The impression given (not so subtley) was that kerry was behind, and that Bush would prevail...:puke:

[orwell]

9. Shrum Scum

May this be the last time BS ever runs a democratic campaign.

He's a loser.