If the votes were intended for John Kerry, of course.
Could it be that Kerry won by a genuine landslide all over the U.S. but widespread Machine-rigging manufactured a Bush victory?
Can we now declare this election wholly illegitimate? Send this information to John Conyers and to every Democratic Senator!!
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UPDATE: VOTING MACHINES COUNT BACKWARDS IN OKLA.
by Bob Nichols Saturday, Nov 27 2004, 3:13am
bobnichols@cox.net
national / elections & legislation / news report
57 Rural Counties Affected - Vote Fraud Suspected
Rural Oklahoma Voting machines know how to count backwards.
Vote Fraud Suspected
by Bob Nichols
Project Censored Award Winner
bobnichols@cox.net
(Oklahoma City OKIMC "Indy" Media) November 28, 2004 - Rural Oklahoma Voting machines know how to count backwards. That's right. Voting machines counted Senator Kerry's votes backward - downward - in Oklahoma, contributing to George Bush's apparent victory in Oklahoma.
http://okimc.org/index.php
All 77 Oklahoma counties used the Optech Eagle voting machines and Tabulator's made by ES&S, Senator Hagel's (R) company.
The respectable, conservative "Tulsa World" newspaper reported on November 3rd that, as of the tabulation of 70% of OK votes, Kerry was winning in 57 of the states's rural counties.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/TWPDFs/2004/Final/A_10_11_3_2004.pdf
The report represented results of the counting when the tabulation was about 70% "complete" as they would say in the old Soviet Union.
The official State of Oklahoma Election Board vote totals released later show Kerry not winning but losing in all the state's 77 counties, including the 57 rural counties. Here is the State's final tally on CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004//pages/results/states/OK/P/00/county.000.html
A simple comparison of total votes for Kerry between the staid establishment mouthpiece the "Tulsa World" newspaper and the so-called "official" final vote totals at the State Election Board show fewer votes for Kerry in 57 counties than the "Tulsa World" does. That's counting backwards for one candidate. That's not fair.
Fifty-seven of the 57 counties clearly demonstrate that Sen Kerry lost 37,982 votes to the ES&S Optech machines. During the same period President Bush gained 393,825 votes. For example: The Machines subtracted 1,142 Kerry votes in Adair County.
Clearly, Sen Kerry's vote totals are not supposed to run backwards. It is not as clear that President Bush's votes are fair votes free from scandal and suspicion.
Nice, slick way to win an election, though. As a man once said "He stole it fair and square!" Bush's victory is tainted by the Oklahoma Voting Machine Scandal.
In other words, Kerry lost votes already cast by voters. The voting machines counted backwards. What could be simpler than that?
It turns out the every vote in the state, all 1.4 Million of them cast, were "counted" on the same type of flawed machine, programmed originally by Hagel's ES&S Company.
Who really won? Time for a re-count, this time by hand!
Not that Oklahoma's few Electoral Votes make much difference in the grand scheme of things. Except, fraud is suspected in Ohio, too. A recount is already guaranteed in Ohio.
What will Oklahoma officials do? What will Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson do? Ask him here:
http://www.oag.state.ok.us/oagweb.nsf/Contact!OpenPage
"Film at 11." Kelly Ogle on Vote Fraud! Fat chance!
We all know that the Professional Hairdo Anchors in the Oklahoma TV stations and the Radio Celebrities will not touch this with a 30 Foot pole since their right wing owners keep them on a real short leash.
But, the money is good and the living is easy, in the great flyover state where The Oklahoma Observer says 20% of the people can't even read. This makes TV and radio even more important. Led by the ultra right wing Daily Oklahoman, the Oklahoma media giants continue to fail everyday Oklahomans.
Meantime, I am reminded of the TV Salsa ad for some company. When informed that somebody had bought Salsa from a company in New York City, an ole boy hollers "Get a rope!"
By the way, what are YOU going to do about this situation?
Copyright 2004, Bob Nichols. All rights reserved. Permission for reposting is allowed provided the complete text and attribution are kept intact. Bob Nichols is a Project Censored Award winner. He lives and works as a writer, political commentator and community organizer in Oklahoma City. Nichols encourages your comments at bobnichols@cox.net