VOTER FRAUD UNSUBSTANTIATED - NYTIMES

The New York Times wrote an article stating that the theories of voter fraud were unsubstantiated. Most of the evidentiary anomalies are just anomalies. Some heavily Democratic precincts in Florida have been voting Republican for years, according to the NYTimes.

Most of the registered party v. actual voting pattern evidence is circumstantial, even if the precinct hadn't been voting Republican for years. Voters could have changed their mind and decided they wanted Bush instead.

Something concerning however, is that there was a precinct in Ohio

where an electronic voting machine malfunctioned in one precinct and allotted some 4,000 votes to President Bush, kicking off its own flurry of Web speculation. That particular problem was unusual and remains unexplained, but it was caught and corrected, Mr. Damschroder said.
New York Times

Reaction from the Kerry campaign?

"I'd give my right arm for Internet rumors of a stolen election to be true," said David Wade, a spokesman for the Kerry campaign, "but blogging it doesn't make it so. We can change the future; we can't rewrite the past."
New York Times

But, where there's smoke there's fire, right? Or is a cigar just a cigar? Mainstream media just bashing bloggers? Why are the voting systems Windows (*cough* hacker-central!) based? Why are we so anxious to get the results the day of the election? The President-Elect doesn't take office until January. Instant gratification.