A call to investigate the 2004 election

[Breeze54]

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/06/26/a_call_to_investigate_the_2004_election/

A call to investigate the 2004 election
By Steven F. Freeman and Joel Bleifuss | June 26, 2006

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."

More at link....

Joel Bleifuss and Steven F. Freeman are authors of the book ``Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?"

[rzemanfl]

1. We need to see Kerry and Edwards making this call. The

authors will just be seen as trying to sell their book, which I just finished reading.

[Breeze54]

3. I'm pretty sure they have...

I know that Kerry's lawyers filed lawsuits and they're still pending, last I heard.
I don't have the link handy but maybe it's in the Elections forum.
I know I read about it on the Ohio Election reform website.

I think this issue needs to be kept in the public collective memory though!

[KaryninMiami]

2. Better late then never. But, as more of these crucial questions come out,

more people will begin to wonder what really happened in 2004. Slowly the truth is leaking out. Not nearly fast enough, but at least the word is actually making it to the mainstream media. Maybe it will result in some serious action on verifying elections in time for 2008.

When RFK Jr. is invited on to Letterman, the question of the stolen election in 2004 becomes a story on one of the major networks and when at least some (3 or more) of the spineless Democrats give this issue the serious attention it deserves, (and do so in public in front of the media) maybe then things will change. If not, we'll just keep doing what we've been doing since those machines arrived in the scene. Blaming the results on poor turnout, "problems" with some of the machines, a few "irregularities", etc.

I'm not that optimistic personally, but haven't lost all hope yet. That's why I've volunteered to help election fraud whistleblower, Clint Curtis upseat Tom Feeney (who asked him to design a software program that could rig election machines). Perhaps if we make enough noise about this, the media will pay attention...

[Breeze54]

4. I think we can

thank the MSM for not hearing ANYTHING about it!! It's rare to hear, imho!
I think any info about it is purposely being suppressed!
















Edited for spelling error.

[tbyg52]

5. Me too

I'd post a link about it, but I did before and the message was deleted. No idea why...

[Breeze54]

8. Your post may have been a

duplicate.

Not to worry and WELCOME to DU!! :hi:

[tbyg52]

9. Thanks!

Now I'm just trying to get enough posts to recommend, while not blathering.... ;)

[Skittles]

6. they need to sound the alarm because it WILL HAPPEN AGAIN

yes it WILL

[Wilms]

7. K&R n/t