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New Data Shows Widespread Vote Manipulations in 2004

 

By Peter Phillips

 

In the fall of 2001, after an eight-month review of 175,000 Florida

ballots never counted in the 2000 election, an analysis by the

National Opinion Research Center confirmed that Al Gore actually won

Florida and should have been President. However, coverage of this

report was only a small blip in the corporate media as a much bigger

story dominated the news after September 11, 2001.

 

 

New research compiled by Dr. Dennis Loo with the University of Cal

Poly Pomona now shows that extensive manipulation of non-paper-trail

voting machines occurred in several states during the 2004 election.

The facts are as follows: In 2004 Bush far exceeded the 85% of

registered Florida Republican votes that he got in 2000, receiving

more than 100% of the registered Republican votes in 47 out of 67

Florida counties, 200% of registered Republicans in 15 counties, and

over 300% of registered Republicans in 4 counties. Bush managed these

remarkable outcomes despite the fact that his share of the crossover

votes by registered Democrats in Florida did not increase over 2000,

and he lost ground among registered Independents, dropping 15 points.

We also know that Bush " won " Ohio by 51-48%, but statewide results

were not matched by the court-supervised hand count of the 147,400

absentee and provisional ballots in which Kerry received 54.46% of the

vote. In Cuyahoga County, Ohio the number of recorded votes was more

than 93,000 greater than the number of registered voters.

 

 

More importantly national exit polls showed Kerry winning in 2004.

However, It was only in precincts where there were no paper trails on

the voting machines that the exit polls ended up being different from

the final count. According to Dr. Steve Freeman, a statistician at the

University of Pennsylvania, the odds are 250 million to one that the

exit polls were wrong by chance. In fact, where the exit polls

disagreed with the computerized outcomes the results always favored

Bush - another statistical impossibility.

 

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Dennis Loo writes, " A team at the University of California at

Berkeley, headed by sociology professor Michael Hout, found a highly

suspicious pattern in which Bush received 260,000 more votes in those

Florida precincts that used electronic voting machines than past

voting patterns would indicate compared to those precincts that used

optical scan read votes where past voting patterns held. "

 

 

There is now strong statistical evidence of widespread voting machine

manipulation occurring in US elections since 2000. Coverage of the

fraud has been reported in independent media and various websites. The

information is not secret. But it certainly seems to be a taboo

subject for the US corporate media.

 

 

Black Box Voting (www.blackboxvoting.org.) reported on March 9, 2005

that voting machines used by over 30 million voters were easily hacked

by relatively unsophisticated programs and audits of the computers

would not show the changes. It is very possible that a small team of

hackers could have manipulated the 2004 and earlier elections in

various locations throughout the United States. Irregularities in the

vote counts certainly indicate that something beyond chance

occurrences has been happening in recent elections.

 

 

That a special interest group might try to cheat on an election in the

United States is nothing new. Historians tell us how local political

machines from both major parties have in the past used methods of

double counting, ballot box stuffing, poll taxes and registration

manipulation to affect elections. In the computer age, however,

election fraud can occur externally without local precinct

administrators having any awareness of the manipulations - and the

fraud can be extensive enough to change the outcome of an entire

national election.

 

 

 

There is little doubt key Democrats know that votes in 2004 and

earlier elections were stolen. The fact that few in Congress are

complaining about fraud is an indication of the totality to which both

parties accept the status quo of a money based elections system.

Neither party wants to further undermine public confidence in the

American " democratic " process (over 80 millions eligible voters

refused to vote in 2004). Instead we will likely see the quiet passing

of legislation that will correct the most blatant problems. Future

elections in the US will continue as an equal opportunity for both

parties to maintain a national democratic charade in which money

counts more than truth.

 

 

 

Peter Phillips is a Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University

and Director of Project Censored. Dennis Loo's report " No Paper Trail

Left Behind: the Theft of the 2004 Presidential Election, " can be

viewed at http://www.projectcensored.org/newsflash/voter_fraud.html

 

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Peter Phillips Ph.D.

Sociology Department/Project Censored

Sonoma State University

1801 East Cotati Ave.

Rohnert Park, CA 94928

707-664-2588http://www.projectcensored.org/

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These findings concerning the two elections against Bush, by Gore and Kerry,

continue to reveal ever more astonishing circumstances and impossibilities. But

however astonishing these circumstances have come to look to us, they are never

as astonishing to me, as is the passivity and resignation with which Democrats

encounter it all. I must have spoken to hundreds of democrats over the past few

years, about the theft of these elections. The typical reaction is, " well, what

can we do about it. " What could be more astonishing than to discover that the

best American citizens can do in the face of the theft of their nation, is to

immediately throw up their hands in

defeat and resignation. It isn't democratic leaders that have betrayed us.

They simply represent us. We have betrayed ourselves.

JP

 

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Tuesday, August 16, 2005 12:24 PM

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Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:29:07 -0700 (PDT)

Spreading Freedom'n Democracy

 

New Data Shows Widespread Vote Manipulations in 2004

 

By Peter Phillips

 

In the fall of 2001, after an eight-month review of 175,000 Florida

ballots never counted in the 2000 election, an analysis by the

National Opinion Research Center confirmed that Al Gore actually won

Florida and should have been President. However, coverage of this

report was only a small blip in the corporate media as a much bigger

story dominated the news after September 11, 2001.

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