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Action Alert: Greg Palast Reports Kerry Won

Thu Nov 04, 2004 at 09:35:54 AM PDT

There are those who say "get over it", and there are those who say "how could Kerry concede"?  But one fact remains, our elections process is clearly broken.

Today, Greg Palast writes the following on TomPaine.com:

"Bush won Ohio by 136,483 votes. Typically in the United States, about 3 percent of votes cast are voided--known as "spoilage" in election jargon--because the ballots cast are inconclusive. Palast's investigation suggests that if Ohio's discarded ballots were counted, Kerry would have won the state. Today,  the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports  there are a total of 247,672 votes not counted in Ohio, if you add the 92,672 discarded votes plus the 155,000 provisional ballots."

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won.php
Update [2004-11-4 17:6:43 by landrew]: Just a bit of levity for a serious situation. My husband just came up with this (ala the original Dragnet show): Dum De Dum Dum. The election you have just seen was stolen. The votes have been changed to protect the Administration.

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