"Get Over It" - no way! A call to investigate the 2004 election.

[marmar]

A Call to Investigate the 2004 Election
by Steven F. Freeman and Joel Bleifuss

We've all heard the story. Nov. 2, 2004, was shaping up as a day of celebration for Democrats. The exit polls were predicting a victory for Senator John Kerry. Many Americans, including most political observers, sat down to watch the evening television coverage convinced that Kerry would be the next president.

But the counts that were being reported on TV bore little resemblance to the exit poll projections. In key state after state, tallies differed significantly from the projections. In every case, that shift favored President George W. Bush. Nationwide, exit polls projected a 51 to 48 percent Kerry victory, the mirror image of Bush's 51 to 48 percent win. But the exit poll discrepancy is not the only cause for concern.

In Ohio, Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, the Ohio co-chairman of the 2004 Bush/Cheney Campaign, borrowed a chapter from Secretary of State Katharine Harris's Florida 2000 playbook. Like Harris, he used the power of his office to affect turnout and thwart voters in heavily Democratic areas. Vote suppression and electoral irregularities in Ohio have been documented, first in January 2005 by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, and in June 2005 by the Democratic National Committee, which found, in the words of DNC Chairman Howard Dean: ``More than a quarter of all Ohio voters reported problems with their voting experience."

Election Day 2004 also saw the advent of a congressional mandate under the Help America Vote Act to replace punch-card systems with new, unproven technologies. In that election, 64 percent of Americans voted on direct recorded electronic voting machines or optical-scan systems, both of which are vulnerable to hacking or programming fraud. According to a September 2005 General Accountability Office investigation, such systems contained flaws that ``could allow unauthorized personnel to disrupt operations or modify data and programs that are critical to . . . the integrity of the voting process."

The rest is at: http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0626-21.htm

[zeemike]

1. What scares me most is that Demos are ignoring this.

Because if they don't care it is because they are in on the scam and feel safe.

[marmar]

3. So true...

I don't get them. It's almost like they're in denial that it happened, when it's fairly obvious now that it did.

[Breeze54]

2. --->

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=219145&mesg_id=219145

[FloridaPat]

4. I'm still pissed at the 2000 election.