On the heals of an election that saw Democrats sweep Republicans out of local offices nationwide, we must face up to the fact that Republicans still have the means, by using Diebold tabulation software, to switch votes from Democratic candidates to Republican ones. A recent
report by the Government Accounting Office (PDF file) confirms this.
We don't want to believe it's possible because of the enormity of the implications. But it can happen here. It is happening here. Read this short story from the The Free Press for more details. Here's a brief excerpt. More quotes below the fold.
For example, they would have you believe that, in direct contradiction to how elections have gone in Ohio for decades, it's now routine for boards of elections to record that 100% of the precincts are reporting, and then suddenly add 18,615 more votes at 1:43 a.m. after the polls have been closed since 7:30 p.m. and 100% of the precincts had been reporting since approximately 9 p.m.
Or that 18,615 Miami County votes could come in late with an impossibly consistent 33.92% for Kerry, as if somebody had pushed a button on a computer with a pre-set percentage---just as the GAO says it can be done.
But ultimately, whatever John Kerry or the bloviators or even the left press say about these stolen elections, America is very close to crossing the line that permanently defines the loss of our democracy.
As we will show tomorrow, this week's theft of five referendum issues in Ohio is yet another tragic by-product of the unwillingness of John Kerry and so many others to stand up for a fair and reliable electoral process in this country.
Many people don't realize that the supposed Ohio recount of the 2004 election is still in the courts because, contrary to state law, the precincts that were recounted were not chossen at random. The Republicans knew, going into the election, which precincts to leave alone so the recount would not show discrepancies.
With so much momentum on our side, we must not let election fraud go uninvestigated or I will promise you that the elections of 2006 will show Democratic gains in both the House and the Senate, but not enough to take control of either.
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