A million votes purged [Does this not make a case of fraud?]

[AnIndependentTexan]

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=389&row=1

An Election Spoiled Rotten
TomPaine.com
Monday, November 1, 2004

by Greg Palast

It's not even Election Day yet, and the Kerry-Edwards campaign is already down by a almost a million votes. That's because, in important states like Ohio, Florida and New Mexico, voter names have been systematically removed from the rolls and absentee ballots have been overlooked—overwhelmingly in minority areas, like Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, where Hispanic voters have a 500 percent greater chance of their vote being "spoiled." Investigative journalist Greg Palast reports on the trashing of the election.

Greg Palast, contributing editor to Harper's magazine, investigated the manipulation of the vote for BBC Television's Newsnight. The documentary, "Bush Family Fortunes," based on his New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, has been released this month on DVD .

John Kerry is down by several thousand votes in New Mexico, though not one ballot has yet been counted. He's also losing big time in Colorado and Ohio; and he's way down in Florida, though the votes won't be totaled until Tuesday night.

Through a combination of sophisticated vote rustling—ethnic cleansing of voter rolls, absentee ballots gone AWOL, machines that "spoil" votes—John Kerry begins with a nationwide deficit that could easily exceed one million votes.

[daleo]

1. Pallast is right, and it is only the tip of the iceberg

But the early concession makes the whole matter academic. I don't like being a downer about it all, but it is hard to avoid.

The divergence between the exit polls and the announced results is the key. Unfortunately this data will probably all be scrubbed now.

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. No. It's not fraud. It's time to unite and heal.

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