Suspicious minds

One of the unfortunate things about Bush's dominance in the popular vote as well as the electoral vote, is that there won't likely be an investigation -- by the press and certainly not by Congress -- into why the irregularities that seem to have occured in the counting of last week's votes were, well, so damned well regular.

F'rinstance...

Early Thursday, as Broward County elections officials wrapped up after a long day of canvassing votes, something unusual caught their eye. Tallies should go up as more votes are counted. That's simple math. But in some races, the numbers had gone...down.

Officials found the software used in Broward can handle only 32,000 votes per precinct. After that, the system starts counting backward. Why a voting system would be designed to count backward was a mystery to Broward County Mayor Ilene Lieberman. She was on the phone late Wednesday with Omaha-based Elections Systems and Software.

And everywhere irregularities have been reported, oh coincidence, they seem to consistently benefit Bush.

Hey, kids, here's how it's done.

Thanks to alert reader Rebecca for the tip.