cases would now come to his office. so from 2001 to 2005, he saw every case. so he is the most knowledgeable person in the world about these issues. so what happened to these cases now? it s a very good question. i think it s the fundamental question for the church, because it s clear that these are crimes. they re not since, they re crimes. and they ve also been covered up in a rather methodical way by the church around the world. your research took almost two years. and in your research, are these isolated incidents or is it habitual within the church? i think what you see is obviously not every priest is a pedophile. in fact, they re a rather small percentage of priests. but what you do see is patterns that emerge all over the world. for a long time, the vatican said oh, this was an american problem. but now we see this problem cropping up in australia, in germany, in brussels, in ireland, where it s been huge, in italy. so what you see in these you know, what you see is p
cases would now come to his office. so from 2001 to 2005, he saw every case. so he is the most knowledgeable person in the world about these issues. so what happened to these cases now? it s a very good question. i think it s the fundamental question for the church, because it s clear that these are crimes. they re not since, they re crimes. and they ve also been covered up in a rather methodical way by the church around the world. your research took almost two years. and in your research, are these isolated incidents or is it habitual within the church? i think what you see is obviously not every priest is a pedophile. in fact, they re a rather small percentage of priests. but what you do see is patterns that emerge all over the world. for a long time, the vatican said oh, this was an american problem. but now we see this problem cropping up in australia, in germany, in brussels, in ireland, where it s been huge, in italy. so what you see in these you know, what you see is p
so from 2001 to 2005, he saw every case. so he is the most knowledgeable person in the world about these issues. so what happened to these cases now? it s a very good question. i think it s the fundamental question for the church, because it s clear that these are crimes. they re not sins, they re crimes. and they ve also been covered up in a rather methodical way by the church around the world. your research took almost two years. and in your research, are these isolated incidents or is it habitual within the church? i think what you see is obviously not every priest is a pedophile. in fact, they re a rather small percentage of priests. but what you do see is patterns that emerge all over the world. for a long time, the vatican said oh, this was an american problem. but now we see this problem cropping up in australia, in germany, in brussels, in ireland, where it s been huge, in italy. so what you see in these you know, what you see is patterns. and the patterns are almost
if it s misaligned, then you re going to get the kind of problems that have been reported. eric: so let me ask you this is this a software glitch, or is it something more insidious? could it be deliberate? no. it s probably a glitch. each machine has to be carefully tested and calibrated to make sure it s been aligned properly. if it gets out of alignment, then you ll have this kind of problem cropping up. i assume that they just haven t been properly calibrated or tested by local election officials. eric: just a coincidence that the reports have been votes for romney going to the obama column? well, look, there is no way to really know. but what this does say is look, every one of these machines at the end, puts up a summary screen of all the choices made by the voters. they have to very carefully look at that and make sure that the machine has exactly recorded what they ve done before they hit that final button that casts the vote.