You might be interested in this. It's in German but it talks at some length about irregularities in the presidential elections:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,327359,00.htmlHere's a Google translation to give you an idea:
11 November 2004, 10:35
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http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,327359,00.html Doubt about the US election result
The district with 139 per cent of election turnout
Of Marc Pitzke, New York
Phantom voter, disappeared voices, counting computers, which subtracted instead of added: While at the choice night hardly on problems with the urn course one reported, in the meantime information about irregularities mehren itself. First congressional representatives demand an investigation.
If one believes Greg Palast, then John Kerry won the US presidency election. "I know, none will's more hear", sigh the investigative reporter, documentary film producer and best-selling author, who made themselves with its searches the Florida Wahlfiasko of 2000 a name. Now he wants to have come a new electoral fraud on the trace: "Kerry got most voices in the decisive States of Ohio and new Mexico. They were not ranked however among thousands."
A heavy reproach, but it does not come from somebody. Palace, resident in New York and London, works for the BBC, the "Guardian" and its sister sheet "Observer". then palace reports the domestic Mainstream media against it proudly, as if is an honour honor, boycotted it persistently, and of Florida ex interior minister Katherine Harris it "by verse called and moved".
Palace suspects the authorities in Ohio (the state, whose 20 electors decided the choice) and to new Mexico (the state, which Kerry with scarcely 8000 voices lost), by "old and new cheat" the results to favour of US president George W. Bush to have manipulated. For example by "spoiled voices", which fell as "invalidly" under the table. In the "Swing State" Ohio, where often still the old, suspekten punching machines from 2000 came to the employment, were after past counting 92,672 voices. Most of these "garbage voices", then palace believes, in the critical districts to the democrat to property would have come.
Paranoia or reality?
Greg palace does not stand with its statement, on 2 November everything with right things happened, long no longer alone. While Kerry already gave the Bush critical US media up on the day after and itself since that time keep covered, many waidwunde democrats until today clasp themselves to the firm faith, this choice are "stolen from them, like already the choice 2000,".
The persistent doubts about the election result - already before locking of the polling stations gardens - do not only strike themselves in the alternative media down or in furious InterNet Blogs as www.stolenelection.com. Also at Watchdog groups, citizens' initiatives and the local offices of the politicians ten thousands of complaints were so far already received. The Kerry clan pursues the reports with interest: "we ignore that everything not", said Kerrys brother Cameron on Tuesday.
Much of it may be pure conspiracy theory, coincidence, loser pain, Paranoia or also only the usual breakdown chaos. Other one however gives at least cause for the Aufhorchen.
Kerry voices for Bush
EPA/DPA
Choice protest in Florida: Sifting of the provisional voices in Ohio, the "new Florida", only on weekend
Most of these reproaches come from Ohio, the "new Florida", as the Blogger baptized it. Here, under the supervision of the ore-conservative Minister of the Interior Kenneth Blackwell, Bush with a majority of 136.483 voices won - subject to of 155.428 "provisional voting cards", whose sifting was to only begin on this weekend.
However there are inconsistencies already now. Thus a choice machine in a rather republican suburb of the capital Columbus booked 4258 voices about Bushs account - although there only 638 people had selected. Returning officer Matthew Damschroder, a former district boss of the republicans, explained the "Supersizing of the Bush voices" (so the local newspaper "Columbus Dispatch") fast with a technical" sip on ".
Something similar "sip on" gave it however also in Cleveland, where 93,000 fictitious extra voices were discovered, and ironical way in the place Miami/Ohio, where a counting automat added 19,000 mysterioese phantom voices. In Youngstown/Ohio democrats state that the machines registered their voices not for Kerry, but for Bush.
10.000 voices doubles counted
AP
Touchscreen to the casting of votes: Rumors over entrance of the manufacturer to the central choice computer
In Auglaize in north Ohio rumors, an ex coworker of the choice machine manufacturer ES&S circulate before the choice without permission entrance to the central computer system briefly had. In the district Warren did not barricade themselves the returning officers for counting the voices "for preservation of regional tradition" behind locked doors - ever more dagewesener and possibly illegal procedure. Here Bush with 41.124 voices projection/lead won.
"the proofs consolidate themselves that the choice in Ohio was stolen", says from Bob Fitrakis, a sociologist at the Columbus State Community college and liberal Kolumnist. Ohio Minister of the Interior Blackwell rejects such reproaches as spinning mills of the InterNet age: "there are also Websites, which state that the moon-landing did not take place, answers" Blackwells speaker James Lee.
But in Ohio it did not only go approximately. In the place Papillion in the Federal State Nebraska were counted 3342 voices - 400 more than voters. Altogether the electoral registration office estimates that in this corner of Nebraskas "up to 10.000 voices doubly counted" are. It becomes still more bizarrer on the Website of the responsible district Sarpy. The official election turnout numbers on 139,93 per cent: 82.607 voters, 115,593 delivered voices, a mysterioese difference of 32.986 voices - over 10.000 more than Bushs projection/lead in the final result.
DPA
Voice examination before four years: "I white, none will's more hear"
In the district Carteret in North Carolina did not go knowing against it 4530 letter votes "lost" and, since the choice computers do not have paper expression, also by Recount any more not to be reconstructed. Possibly must completely again be selected here now. Elsewhere in the Federal State later 22,000 voices for Kerry were discovered.
The group of citizens of COUNTS Every Vote 2004 (CEV2004) logged hundreds of "irregularities" in approximately 700 polling stations in the Southern States, where Bush cleared strongly: long waiting periods, mechanical defects, not sufficient voting card, intimidation of voters. Particularly by it minorities and arms were affected. "even if the United States are a strong democracy", say CEV Chefaktivist Keith Jennings, "are them also an unsatisfactory democracy."
Blackout of the large media?
REUTERS
US voter with the sunrise on 2 November: Sharpens an iceberg?
"we have the bad feeling that we see, say only the point of the iceberg" to Cindy Cohn, the Justitiarin of the group of citizens of Electronic Frontier Foundation. Also the Watchdog group of People for the American Way (PFAW) deplores a "irreparable damage of the citizen rights". But the longer the choice is past, the more heavily falls apart it to sort all these messages meaningfully.
Particularly since most established US media obviously decided to let the thing be based for the time being on itself. Even the left weekly paper "nation" answers its own heading "the choice was stolen?" with a zoegerlichen "probably not". Greg of palace thesis of the Stimmenklau in Ohio, writes "Nation" Politikchef David Corn, most improbably" and "perhaps is" the beginning of a case, but no case for itself ".
"the large media suffer from a Blackout", criticized against it David Swanson, the medium co-ordinator of the journalist combination ILCA. Only a few local newspapers and TV transmitters still remained for the topic on the heels. Is not nevertheless only the scandal whether the irregularities would have changed the election result, but that it had come at all to irregularities.
All gave up. The three democratic congressional representatives John Conyers, Jerrold Nadler and Robert Wexler now requested the US audit office GAO to follow to the doubts about the expiration of the choice "urgently". "we gotten daily new complaints", wrote them on Tuesday in a letter at GAO boss David Walker. "so far there is over 30.000."
Bushs projection/lead - 3.5 million voices
But even if ten thousands voices should have been wrongly counted or suppressed remain to hold: After the past result president Bush received 59.7 million voices with the US choice on 2 November - his challenger John Kerry only 56.2 million. And nobody states so far that with the choice more than 3.5 million were manipulated. After absolute voices Bush won the choice thus clearly.
To the victory in Ohio - and thus to the majority of the elector voices - Kerry would have been sufficient for approximately 130,000 additional voices, but also this projection/lead Bushs was much too large the democrats, in order to in-permit itself again on legal skirmishes. So far.
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