Read It & Weep

Greg Palast, who did an amazing job investigating the Florida 2000 debacle (and was pretty much ignored by the 6 Corporations, otherwise known as "The Mainstream Media"), has begun an investigation into Ohio. You can read it here.

While many people are (rightly) questioning Ohio's computer voting machines*, Palast is concentrating on...get ready...punch-card ballots:

The election in Ohio was not decided by the voters but by something called "spoilage." Typically in the United States, about 3 percent of the vote is voided, just thrown away, not recorded. When the bobble-head boobs on the tube tell you Ohio or any state was won by 51 percent to 49 percent, don't you believe it ... it has never happened in the United States, because the total never reaches a neat 100 percent. The television totals simply subtract out the spoiled vote. And not all votes spoil equally. Most of those votes, say every official report, come from African American and minority precincts.

*(This is, afterall, the state which Diebold's Warren O'Dell promised to "deliver its electoral votes to the president" in 2004; this is also a state with a Republican Governor and a Republican Secretary of State; and a state which promised to have a paper trail for computerized votes...in 2006.)