Dispatch propaganda campaign to cover-up e-voting flaws reaches new low

[babsbunny]

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2008/1684

October 8, 2008

The Columbus Dispatch editorial of September 19 proclaimed: “Votes of confidence” and the editors offered this subhead: “Poll shows Ohioans trust elections to be fair, with accurate results.” The Dispatch touts a poll by the Institute for Public Policy Research at the University of Cincinnati demonstrating that most voters have confidence in the Ohio election system.

This is a bit like the Vatican scribes announcing in medieval times in a Papal bull that the vast majority of people believe that the world is flat. The Dispatch, with its usual Republican operative arrogance, writes “The outlandish conspiracy accusations concerning the 2004 election have been intended to convince the Democratic rank and file that the GOP ‘stole’ the Ohio vote to ensure President Bush’s re-election.”
The reality is that the Bush State Department recognizes exit polls as the international gold standard for election theft. Indeed, the Bush diplomats demanded the overturning of the Ukrainian election when their exit poll results came in similar to Ohio’s in 2004. The fact is that the exit polls showed Kerry wining substantially in Ohio, 51% to 48%. The official results certified by the Bush-Cheney Re-election Campaign Co-Chair, who masqueraded as Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, are virtually the opposite of the vote reported by voters as they left the polls.