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Thursday, November 07, 2002
Byron York pushes the South Dakota voter fraud allegations to new levels of irrationality by positing that the seemingly late return for several pro-Johson precincts indicates some kind of foul action. This is ridiculous in so many ways. Firstly, he emphasizes that Dems put in a huge amount of effort in the area of those precincts, and then wonders why the Dems' margin was greater this year than in 1998, when there was half the voter turnout in that area -- if you double the turnout by using the Dem machine, it's entirely predictable that you'll have a greater margin of victory. In the last precinct counted, which supposedly handed Johnson the victory, Johnson actually lost to Thune, 247 to 229, according to York's numbers. You can't claim a fix in the last precinct if he didn't even win there!
He brings in voter fraud allegations, but doesn't actually pin them as the reason that Thune lost -- perhaps because they've been discredited over and over again.
Steven I. Weiss 1:54:00 PM
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