Too many voting ’irregularities’ to be coincidence

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and view the visual graphs.

 

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4175

 

 

Friday 5th November 2004 :

Too many voting 'irregularities' to be coincidence

 

 

Right now there is no hard proof, but the circumstantial evidence is a

mile high. Looking at all of these 'irregularities' it's hard to

imagine how one could conclude that this election was clean.

 

1. There were complaints in several states about the touchscreen

voting machines not working properly.

 

Roberta Harvey, 57, of Clearwater, Fla., said she had tried at

least a half dozen times to select Kerry-Edwards when she voted

Tuesday at Northwood Presbyterian Church.

 

After 10 minutes trying to change her selection, the Pinellas

County resident said she called a poll worker and got a wet-wipe

napkin to clean the touch screen as well as a pencil so she could use

its eraser-end instead of her finger. Harvey said it took about 10

attempts to select Kerry before and a summary screen confirmed her

intended selection.

 

 

The e-voting spokesman called this a glitch, the touchscreen needed

to be 'recalibrated'- of course that's what the review screen is for.

I wonder how many voters use these brand new touchscreen voting

machines and just assume that when they touch Kerry that's what the

computer registers. Of course a certain percentage of voters won't

bother to closely check the review screen, thus allowing the computer

'glitch' to vote for them?

 

2. Stryguy on the DemocraticUnderground.com found a huge anomaly in

Franklin County Ohio. One polling location registered a Bush victory

4258-260. Wow- impressive Bush support eh? Funny how the vote (in this

precinct) on all the other races was like 350-250. It seems like 4,000

Bush lovers came to the polls to vote for Bush and nothing else.

 

In case the DU thread is down- here is the pdf file of elections

results from Franklin County.

 

Check page 23 Gahanna 1B for the unbelievable Bush victory, page 285

prop 1 is the Gay Marriage Ban- which you'd think at least some of the

4,258 rabid Bush voters would have also supported, but amazingly all

4,000 of them forgot.

 

3. Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell is this year's Katherine

Harris. Co-chair of the Bush campaign in Ohio, his blatant

partisanship had many calling for his resignation. He bought e-voting

machines for Ohio even after Diebold CEO wrote, " I am committed to

helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year. "

Several experts testify on the vote suppression in Ohio here.

 

" A poll worker told me this morning that there were no tapes of

the results posted on some machines; on other machines the posted

count was zero "

 

 

4. The amazing 'coincidence' that exit polls were accurate in

non-swing states, but were way off in key states like Ohio and

Florida. I can understand that exit polls may be flawed, but how odd

that they're only flawed in swing states that Bush needed to win...

and of course the final results are always skewed towards Bush.. which

is exactly what would happen if Bush were losing, then a repub vote

thief dialed in to the central tabulators and activated a script that

would fix the count. How easy it is to steal an election with modern

technology.... no need to haul ballot boxes to the lake- all you need

is the secret phone number and the election could be fixed from a home

computer. (Election officials 'unknowingly' gave out the secret phone

# in a stack of requested papers)

 

5. Earl at the DU forum took some screen shots of CNN's exit polls and

caught them altering their exit polls to match the reported vote.

Funny how this 'mistake' by CNN fits in so nicely with #4.

 

Graphs split off of this single (too large for bellaciao) image

 

Isn't it strange that all of these 'anomalies' in the exit polls and

touchscreen machines always seem to favor Bush? There were many

similar reports after the 2002 congressional elections, when the

Republicans took control of Congress (which the evil cabal needed to

prevent a real 911 investigation and to start the war free of

consequences).

 

So if you were a detective and this was the circumstantial evidence...

would you conclude that absolutely, positively beyond doubt there was

no fraud in this election? Of course not, there's definitely some

funny business going on here.... so why did Mr. 'Help is on the way'

Kerry give up so quickly?

 

Greg Palast notes that Kerry was down by 136,000 votes with 247,000

ballots still uncounted. Consider that most of these provisional

ballots and undervotes are from minority precincts where Republicans

sent their 'vote challengers'. Supposedly they were trying to prevent

unregistered voters from voting, but they actually just caused huge

delays in poor neighborhoods. People were waiting in line for 5-6

hours, in pouring rain just to vote... I wonder how many left after

two or three hours.

 

I recall Kerry frequently saying that this was the most important

election of our lifetime. What happened to make him change his mind

and just give up like that? We _know_ Bush is a liar, and now we're

supposed to just trust Diebold and the Republican henchman Blackwell

were honest? No, they haven't earned any trust.

 

Why didn't Kerry put up a fight? That in my mind is the most damning

evidence proving this was staged election. Why wasn't Kerry concerned

about the Diebold CEO 'committed to delivering' votes to Bush? Why

wasn't he demanding a fair and transparent election process all year

long? Why wasn't he concerned with the private corporations

controlling our voting process? Millions of regular Americans knew of

the potential for fraud, computer security experts have testified that

this system is so open to fraud it's insane that anyone would even

suggest it's secure, but Kerry and the Democrats never considered

demanding a paper trail? What are they, stupid? Or corrupt?

 

Wouldn't it be nice to get beyond this circumstantial evidence and

into some hard proof that this election was rigged? That what Bev

Harris is doing at blackboxvoting.org

- she's filed Freedom of Information Act requests for vote records in

over 3,000 counties with more to follow. If you care about our

Democracy, the future of our children, and that of children in Iraq

and other countries about to be invaded, please go to

blackboxvoting.org and get informed, do what you can to pass this info

on. We cannot accept another stolen election- either we rise up now or

America as we knew it is dead- replaced by 21st century fascism and

the most idiotic puppet dictator the world has ever seen. Is that what

you want to leave to your children?

 

Nov 4, 2004 Dubya: " I've earned some political capital... and I intend

to use it. "

Lord help us

 

by : Ben Frank

Friday 5th November 2004