Worse Than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral Disaster

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Subject:Fwd: " Worse Than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral Disaster, " by

William Rivers Pitt

 

 

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804A.shtml

 

Worse Than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral Disaster

 

By William Rivers Pitt

t r u t h o u t | Report

Monday 08 November 2004

 

Key paragraphs summarizing the election anomalies:

 

[begin excerpt]

 

A poster named 'TruthIsAll' on the DemocraticUnderground.com forums

laid out the questionable results of Tuesday's election in succinct

fashion:

 

" To believe that Bush won the election, you must also believe:

 

that the exit polls were wrong;

 

that Zogby's 5pm election day calls for Kerry winning Ohio and Florida

were wrong (he was exactly right in his 2000 final poll);

 

that Harris' last-minute polling for Kerry was wrong (he was exactly

right in his 2000 final poll);

 

that incumbent rule #1 - undecideds break for the challenger - was wrong;

 

that the 50% rule - an incumbent doesn't do better than his final

polling - was wrong;

 

that the approval rating rule - an incumbent with less than 50%

approval will most likely lose the election - was wrong;

 

that it was just a coincidence that the exit polls were correct where

there was a paper trail and incorrect (+5% for Bush) where there was

no paper trail;

 

that the surge in new young voters had no positive effect for Kerry;

 

that Kerry did worse than Gore against an opponent who lost the

support of scores of Republican newspapers who were for Bush in 2000;

 

that voting machines made by Republicans with no paper trail and with

no software publication, which have been proven by thousands of

computer scientists to be vulnerable in scores of ways, were not

tampered with in this election. "

 

In short, we have old-style vote spoilage in minority communities. We

have electronic voting machines losing votes and adding votes all

across the country. We have electronic voting machines whose

efficiency and safety have not been tested. We have electronic voting

machines that offer no paper trail to ensure a fair outcome. We have

central tabulators for these machines running on Windows software,

compiling results that can be demonstrably tampered with. We have the

makers of these machines publicly professing their preference for

George W. Bush. We have voter trends that stray from the expected

results. We have these machines counting millions of votes all across

the country.

 

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