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Newtopia: From the New Deal to the Dirty Deal: Doubtful Elections
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From the New Deal to the Dirty Deal: Doubtful Elections in George Bush’s America

Tuesday, April 26, 2005
BY ELIZABETH JORDAN AND OLIVER TERENCE DAWSHED
Newtopia Magazine


The present work discusses how to identify electoral fraud and estimate its scale. Reasons to believe it occurred in Florida in 2000 and, with less certainty, in 2004 are outlined. It should be noted, however, that statistical analysis on its own is not sufficient to prove fraud. Proof can only result from direct evidence gathered by a searching investigation. A political strategy must be combined with an analytic strategy to obtain that investigation.

A critical element of that strategy is to develop a genuinely impartial media. Even if it were shown that votes were not being stolen, media performance has been so defective that American elections cannot be said to be free and fair. Indeed, two former American presidents and several senior members of Congress have indicated that the elections of 2000 and 2004 were not...

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