STOLEN ELECTION 2004
Still think I'm crazy?

From Wired courtesy of J. Orlin Grabbe:

E-Vote Glitch Inflates Bush Total

An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said.

Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.

Bush actually received 365 votes in the precinct, Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, told the Columbus Dispatch.

And

In the Ohio precinct in question, the votes are recorded onto a cartridge. On one of the three machines at that precinct, a malfunction occurred in the recording process, Damschroder said. He could not explain how the malfunction occurred.

I'll just bet. Click here for the rest. Then wonder how many more times this happened, but wasn't caught. Then do some hypothetical math. I may be wrong to assert that this election was stolen like the 2000 election, but I'm definitely not crazy to think so.

Read on.

From BELLACIAO, again courtesy of J. Orlin Grabbe:

Too many voting ’irregularities’ to be coincidence

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)

Click here for more "irregularities."

But, wait, there's more! From News Target, courtesly of Dr. Menlo:

States with electronic voting machines
gave Bush mysterious 5% advantage

Is Bush trying to pull a fast one? It's not fooling bloggers over at DemocraticUnderground.com, who have put together some fascinating numbers showing that a mysterious "5% advantage" goes to Bush only in those states using electronic voting machines. Or, put another way, all the exit polls showed Kerry winning, and the exit polls asked people who they actually voted for. But strangely, the "official" count appears to have been boosted in favor of Bush.

And

Just to make things even more frustrating for Democratics, the e-voting machines have no way to offer a meaningful recount of votes. As this WIRED article explains, the machines leave no paper trail. The votes are recorded as mere bits and bytes, meaning there's really no way to tell how the people actually voted in the first place. (Only in America could we decide our national elections with the aid of voting machines that leave no paper trail.)

Click here for the rest.

Finally, from VotersUnite again courtesy of Dr. Menlo, check out this massive list of reported voting problems from last Tuesday.

Like I keep saying, I could be mistaken, but there's enough here to set off numerous red flags, and because we already know that the Republicans are prone toward this sort of thing, well, make up your own mind. Just because the Democrats are a bunch of weasels that have put themselves in a position that makes election theft possible doesn't make it okay for the GOP to actually do it. This is wrong, and it looks like these criminals are going to get away with it again.

Damn it.

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