Did 21 counties in TX have NO Republican voters?
Did 3 counties in TX have NO Democratic voters?

Check out the CNN and Texas Secretary of State web sites.

Really?  Or is something wrong with the trade secret software that
counts the invisible e-ballots in TX?

I forwarded you an email on yesterday's suspicious Texas primary
election results but did not author it.

Here is my own take -

A FOLLOW-UP ON WHAT HAPPENED IN THE TUESDAY TEXAS PRIMARY ELECTION:

Did 21 counties in TX really have NO Republican voters?
Did 3 counties in TX really have NO Democratic voters?

Or did the voting machine software count the paper and the invisible
e-ballots incorrectly?

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Check out the CNN and Texas Secretary of State web sites.

http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_135_race0.htm

http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_136_race0.htm

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#TX

Here is the list of voting machines used in TX by county:

http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/sysexam/voting-sys-bycount...
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Probably the virtually impossible TX vote counts were not caused by
fraud, but WERE caused by human error.

(Human error is the only kind of election error since humans build and
program the machines, the ballot definitions, and the databases used
to count votes.)

The counties with zero vote counts for either the Republicans or the
Democrats used a variety of voting machines:

ES&S optical scanners and digital recording electronic (DRE) voting
machines, and also Hart DRE and optical scan voting machines.

Texas also uses Diebold voting machines, but  no counties using
Diebold voting machines had zero votes counted for the Republicans or
Democrats.

In Washington State's February primary they counted some Republican
ballots as Democratic ballots also in some counties - where voters
whose names contained particular letters had their ballots counted as
Democratic ballots, even though many of them had voted as Republicans
- so the vote counts there were inaccurate in the same manner as
Texas' vote counts are most likely inaccurate.

If Republican ballots were all counted as Democratic ballots in 21
Texas counties, then extra votes were awarded to Clinton or to Obama
depending on the corresponding ballot positions of Republican primary
candidates as compared to Clinton or Obama's position on the ballots.

I.e. If ballots were counted incorrectly in those 24 TX counties, then
both the Republican and Democratic vote counts were inaccurate in TX.

Washington state used ES&S optical scan voting systems and the
database of voters was incorrect (and perhaps other databases as
well.)  It will be interesting to see what causes are associated with
the incorrect vote counts in TX, and whether or not the DRE vote
counts, without a paper ballot record, can be corrected at all or not.

Election officials seem to have a tendancy for covering up problems
with the vote counts rather than routinely detecting, exposing, and
correcting the inevitable errors. It is surprising that election
officials do not notice these type of errors until after election
advocates point out the virtually impossible patterns of vote counts.

If the press reports this virtually impossible phenomenon in TX it is
likely that Republican voters will come forward (or the voter
registries can be examined) to find Republicans who voted in the 21
counties, as well as Dem voters in the 3 counties claiming zero Dem
votes.

What common errors could have caused so many counties (21) in TX to
show no votes for all voters of either the Democratic or Republican
party?

There may be a common error among those counties in the way they
programmed their voting machines which caused all voters' ballots to
be counted for only one party.

PERHAPS:

1. these counties  used the same consultant to program their
electronic voter registration or electronic poll books which
improperly listed all voters as belonging to the same political party?

or

2. these 24 TX counties hired the same consulting firm to program
their voting machines.

or

3. the county election officials all forgot, or were not trained to,
sort the ballots prior to counting them, or to program the voting
machines correctly,

or

4. the poll workers made errors (Vendors and Election Officials
typically blame election problems on poll workers.)

or

5. the voters forgot to fill out a bubble to indicate what political
party their ballot was

or

6. the ballot printers of optical scan ballots forgot to print
different bar codes on the Republican and Democratic ballots

Computers magnify human error and the ability to commit vote fraud by
a thousand-fold.

For instance, the States of MA, NH, and CT all use the same company,
LHS, to program all their optical scan machines, and CT found in
conducting audits of the memory cards during the election, that a high
percentage of memory cards contained junk and were improperly
programmed.

In New York State, election officials "forgot" to record Obama votes
on the reports they submitted from the polls to the central election
office. In New Jersey, the voting machines malfunctioned and counted
votes incorrectly.

It seems probable that Clinton and Obama were awarded extra votes in
Texas that were meant for Republican candidates - and probably not in
the same proportion as Democratic voters.

The TX primary election vote counts are obviously not accurate - not
even TX popular vote counts are accurate in the 24 counties are
showing that either no Republicans or alternatively that no Democrats
voted.

It could be that ALL ballots were counted as Democratic in those 21
counties and that votes for certain Republicans were counted
incorrectly as votes for certain Democrats (perhaps Clinton).

Here is an excellent article, very well written, by a historian on the
phenomenon of how press already improperly reported on the TX primary
election contest between Obama vs. Clinton:

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/030608a.html

I hope that press and TX election officials will investigate and
uncover exactly what the problems were in TX and that TX election
officials will try to correct the TX vote counts, rather than trying
to convince the public that there were "no problems".

THE OTHER POSSIBILITY

is that ALL Texas Republicans crossed over in these 21 counties to try
to influence the Democratic primary election. That would not be a
flattering picture of Republican voters.  Let's hope that was not the
case.

Yet that would not explain the lack of any Democratic votes in 3
counties where there was not much reason for Democrats to cross-over
and vote in the Republican primary.

The only way to know the cause(s) for this highly suspicious pattern
in the Texas primary is to investigate all the more likely
possibilities, that ballots were counted inaccurately, and eliminate
it first.

Cheers,

Kathy

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 Here is the Texas Vote Count Data for the 24 counties reporting zero
votes for either Republicans or Democrats:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.
richardhayesphillips(AT)yahoo.com
March 5, 2008

Didn't anybody notice this?

It is now 24 hours after the polls closed in Texas.

    In 21 counties, with 100% of precincts reporting,
Nobody voted in the Republican presidential primary.

     In 3 counties, with 100% of precincts reporting,
Nobody voted in the Democratic presidential primary.

     In the 21 counties with NO Republican voters, there were
87,919 registered voters, and
36,239 ballots cast,
all of them Democratic.

     In the 3 counties with NO Democratic Voters, there were
5,212 registered voters, and
1,865 ballots cast,
all of them Republican.

In Maverick County,
ALL 9,661 ballots cast were Democratic.

In Hansford County,
ALL 1,235 ballots cast were Republican.

ONE-PARTY TEXAS COUNTIES, PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY, 2008

            County        Registered  Republican Democratic
                                  Voters          Votes         Votes
Armstrong            1404          369             0
Borden                   432            0           139
Brooks                 6385            0         3185
Cottle                   1230            0           471
Crockett               2654            0          1166
Culberson             1959            0           526
Dickens                1410            0           612
Duval                    9331            0         5053
Foard                   1043             0           432
Hall                      2110              0           813
Hansford               3101        1235              0
Hardeman             2969             0         1086
Hudspeth              1557             0           476
Kent                       665               0               250
La Salle               4071              0            1392
Loving                    116              0             22
Maverick              26224            0          9661
Reeves                  6337            0          2228
Roberts                   707          261               0
Stonewall               1087            0           483
Throckmorton         1175           0           513
Upton                    2139            0            823
Zapata                   7148            0          3190
Zavala                    7877            0          3718

But don't take my word for it.  See for yourself.

http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_135_race0.htm

http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_136_race0.htm

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#TX

Election officials in the State of Texas have some explaining to do.

Richard Hayes Phillips is the author of the definitive book on the
2004 presidential election in Ohio
- "Witness to a Crime: A Citizens' Audit of an American Election."
For more information:richardhayesphillips(AT)yahoo.com

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Fellow U.S. Patriots,

The TX vote counts seem to be correct in most counties because not all
counties in TX hold primary elections for both political parties.

(So we can trust the Texas primary results as much as we can trust the
accuracy of any State's vote counts which are not subjected to post-
election manual independent audits, and lack publicly verifiable
ballot reconciliation and security procedures.)

There is, however, an interesting pattern in the Texas Democratic
primary which is open to voters of both political parties in Texas.

In the 21 counties where there was no Republican primary, the vote
shares for Clinton and Obama were:

Clinton 69.4%

Obama 24.6%

as opposed to Clinton and Obama vote shares in the other counties
which had both Republican and Democratic primaries:

Clinton 49.7%

Obama 48.7%

This is a huge margin swing of 43.8%!

This leads one to suspect that Republican cross-over voters "may" have
had a large hand in determining the Democratic nominee in Texas.

The only way to know for sure would be to go through the poll books to
see how many registered Republicans voted in the Democratic primary
election.

The practice of voting in the opposing party's primary is legal and
would be what strategic voters would do if there were an open primary,
especially if there were no primary in one's own political party, or
the primary in one's own political party were not competitive. I.e.
Because McCain was expected to win the Republican primary, it would be
expected that many Republicans would cross over to the Democratic
primary and vote for the candidate whom they felt had the least chance
of winning in the opposing party's primary election.

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Thanks to Rady Ananda for writing this article on the phenomenon of
the lack of primary elections in some counties:

Texas Holdem: Provisionals, Delegates, One-Party Counties Hold Back
the Public Will http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_rady_ana_080307_texas_holdem_...

Ananda quotes Texas attorney David Rogers.  "With no county chairman,
there is no one to organize or run a primary."  Rogers explained that
while ballots, voting machines, and election workers are all paid for
by the state government, the local parties at the county level have to
bear the costs of administration and accounting; and they have to find
someone to do the paperwork, and somewhere to store the paper.  "The
costs in time and money to the parties aren't much, but they aren't
nothing."

Ananda quotes  Populist Texas attorney, David Van Os: "Armstong,
Hansford, and Roberts are the 3 counties in Texas that as of now don't
have Democratic county chairs. They are all in the upper Panhandle. So
they didn't have Democratic primaries because there was nobody to hold
one. In general elections the Democratic vote typically ranges from
about 12% to about 22% in those counties.... There is an even greater
number of rural West Texas and rural South Texas counties that don't
have Republican county chairs, with some of them being Democratic ...
and others being Republican counties in national and statewide
elections."

Here's a list of GOP county chairs, so you can see that of the 21
counties not holding Republican primaries, 18 of them do not have any
Republican party chairs. http://www.texasgop.org/site/PageServer?pagename=leadership_cc

Thanks to Charlie Strauss and a person from Texas for alerting me to
this CBS News article.

The following article appeared a couple of days prior to the
primaries: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/01/politics/main3895907.shtml

Excerpt:
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"But as Tuesday's primary and caucus nears, with a decision on the
Democratic nominee hanging in the balance, 21 Texas counties won't
even be holding primaries.

Despite Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama barnstorming the
state, three rural Panhandle counties will net them zero votes.

The Democrats aren't holding a primary in the sparsely-populated
counties because there's no one to run an election there.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/01/politics/main3895907.shtml?...

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Because Texas has both a primary and a caucus, it may be possible to
have a caucus but not a primary election in a county.

If only registered Democrats attend the Democratic caucuses, this
could possibly explain why Obama won the Texas Democratic caucuses,
but lost the Democratic open primary election; and could possibly also
explain why the number of voters in the Republican primaries were less
than half the number in the Democratic primary.  However, again, it
would take examining the poll books and adding up the number of
registered Republicans and Democrats who voted in each county. A large
job.

Texas is an unusual state in that the party primaries are not
conducted state-wide.

Please accept my apologies for my earlier emails.  I should have
investigated the possible causes of the seemingly anomalous zero votes
in 21 Republican and 3 Democratic primaries, prior to sending the
earlier emails.

Cheers,

Kathy Dopp

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Kathy Dopp's fact-finding and investigative efforts. Dopp is a
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