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"...though to claim a conspiracy of multi-state fraud involving several different vote-tallying devices without any evidence is, to say the least, premature." --open democracy
1. It would HAVE TO BE "multi-state fraud" to account for Bush's national popular majority.
2. The conditions for "multi-state fraud" were never more ideal--an untested, unreliable, hackable electronic voting system, in widespread use for the first time, with the vote count controlled by secret, proprietary programming code in central, electronic tabulators, owned by two companies, both run by major Bush donors, and with no paper record (unrecountable, unauditable) in a third of the country.
3. As numerous experts have shown: one hacker, a couple of minutes. Or, a line of code inserted remotely, accessing internal modems. And no one in the country, not even election officials, have a right to review that code. It is PROPRIETARY.
4. House Republican leader Tom Delay prevented a paper trail from ever reaching a vote. The two main companies themselves, Diebold and ES&S, advocate paperless electronic voting, have resisted proper auditing and testing (and in the case of Diebold, lied about it, and got sued for it), and engage in intense lobbying with millions of dollars being thrown around to force these untested and expensive voting systems on the states. The "revolving door" employment, public service vs. private company, is a scandal in itself.
5. "...without any evidence...". Yeah, it's kind of hard to come up with hard evidence when the perps have deliberately arranged for there to be none. Still, the inferential evidence is profound. For instance, touchscreen electronic voting machines changing Kerry votes to Bush votes in 86 out of 88 reported incidents. Lower ticket candidates pulling more votes than the presidential candidate (in one case, an unknown, underfunded candidate for judge). 130,000 to 260,000 phantom votes for Bush in Florida's three main Democratic counties (UC Berkeley study). A 9% edge to Bush in electronic vs. paper voting in No. Carolina (DU study). The exit polls showing a weird skew to Bush, in exit polls vs. official tally, in the battleground states, and, at the precinct level, in Bush strongholds, and showing an overall Kerry win. (Dr. Steven Freeman and USCV studies). Big Democratic success in new voter registration in 2004 (nearly 60/40), most new voters voting for Kerry, most Nader voters switching to Kerry. (Where did Bush's margin come from?). Big disapproval of Bush and his policies consistent over many polls, and many months, going back for more than a year. And this doesn't even begin to plumb the evidence that this writer says there is none of.
The Democrats would be in a much stronger position today if they had, a) not reneged on their repeated promise to "count every vote"; b) done their job as politicians PRIOR TO the election and insisted on an honest, transparent election; c) held their own national forum on the election, with Bushites obstructing any official investigation in Congress, and exposed everything we now know; and d) weren't so damned clueless or corrupt, and grokked that they clearly represent the majority of the country.
The 2004 election was transparently INVALID. The basic conditions for an honest vote count WERE NOT PRESENT.
Further, the journalistic crime of the TV networks on election night--ALTERING the exit polls on everybody's TV screens to fit a Bush win, and depriving the American people of the information that Kerry won the exit polls (a strong indicator of fraud)--should have long ago been exposed to all. Only a small group of people is aware of this (growing ever larger).
The corruption and collusion of these news organizations is only matched by the corruption and collusion of the state and local elections officials who purchased these shoddy, unreliable, hackable computer voting systems and left us wide open to EASY election fraud, at the touch of a keyboard! (--some of them probably innocently, but too many for the wrong reasons). It's hard to say which is worse. The Democratic Party needs to address BOTH, NOW, before it's too late.
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